Afghanistan

==English==
===Etymology===
 is believed by many modern Indic scholars to have been derived from a term though, some people claim its origin from the word or else from the word ; + suffix . cf Persian 
See: Wikipedia article on Etymology of Afghanistan. Also see: 
===Pronunciation===
* , 
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan
# A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto.
====Translations====
* Afrikaans: Afghanistan
* Albanian: 
*: Gheg Albanian: Afghanistan
* Arabic: 
* Armenian: 
* Asturian: Afganistán
* Azeri: Əfqanıstan
* Basque: Afganistan
* Belarusian: 
* Bengali: আফগানিস্তান
* Bosnian: 
* Breton: Afghanistan
* Bulgarian: 
* Catalan: l’Afganistan 
* Cebuano: Afghanistan
* Chinese: 阿富汗
*: Cantonese: 阿富汗
*: Mandarin: 
*: Min Nan: 
* Chuvash: Афганистан
* Cornish: Afghanistan
* Croatian: 
* Czech: , 
* Danish: 
* Dhivehi: އަފްޣާނިސްތާން
* Dutch: 
* Dzongkha: ཨཕ་ག་ནིསི་ཏཱན་
* Esperanto: Afganio, Afganistano, Afganujo
* Estonian: 
* Finnish: 
* French: 
* Friulian: Afghanistan
* Galician: Afganistán 
* Georgian: 
* German: 
* Greek: 
* Gujarati: અફગાનિસ્તાન (Afgānistān)
* Haitian Creole: Afganistan
* Hebrew: 
* Hindi: 
* Hungarian: 
* Icelandic: 
* Ido: Afganistan
* Ilocano: Afganistan
* Indonesian: 
* Interlingua: Afghanistan
* Irish: An Afganastáin
* Italian: , 
* Japanese: 
* Javanese: Afganistan
* Kalenjin: 
* Kamba: 
* Kannada: ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ
* Kapampangan: Afghanistan
* Kazakh: Ауғанстан
* Khmer: 
* Kikuyu: 
* Korean: 
* Kurdish: 
* Latin: Afgania 
* Latvian: Afganistāna
* Limburgish: Afganistan
* Lithuanian: 
* Low Saxon: Afghanistan
* Luhya: 
* Luo: 
* Luxembourgish: Afghanistan
* Macedonian: 
* Malay: 
* Malayalam: അഫ്ഗാനിസ്ഥാന്
* Maltese: 
* Marathi: अफ़गानिस्तान (Afgānistān)
* Meru: 
* Mongolian: 
* Nahuatl: Afganistān
* Nauruan: 
* Northern Sami: Afghanistan
* Norwegian: 
* Novial: Afganistan
* Nynorsk: Afghanistan
* Occitan: Afganistan
* Ossetian: Афгъанистан
* Pashto: 
* Persian: 
* Piedmontese: Afgànistan
* Polish: 
* Portuguese: 
* Quechua: Afgansuyu
* Romanian: 
* Russian: 
* Samogitian: Afganėstans
* Sanskrit: 
* Scottish Gaelic: Afganastan
* Serbian:
*: Cyrillic: Авганистан 
*: Roman: Avganistan 
* Sicilian: Afganistàn
* Slovak: 
* Slovene: 
* Spanish: 
* Sundanese: Apganistan
* Swahili: , 
* Swedish: 
* Tagalog: Afghanistan
* Tajik: Афғонистон (Afğoniston)
* Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘనిస్తాన్
* Tetum: Afeganistaun
* Thai: 
* Turkish: 
* Udmurt: Афганистан
* Ukrainian: 
* Urdu: 
* Uzbek: Afg`oniston
* Venetian: Afganistan
* Vietnamese: 
* Volapük: Lafganistän
* Waray: Afganistan
* Welsh: Affganistan
* West Frisian: Afganistan
* Wolof: Afganistaan
* Yiddish: אפגאניסטאן (afganistan)
====Related terms====
* Afghan
* Afghani
* AFG
===See also===
* Appendix:Countries of the world
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==Dutch==
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan
# Afghanistan.
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==German==
===Pronunciation===
* 
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan 
# Afghanistan
====Derived terms====
* Afghane / Afghani / Afghanin / afghanisch
Category:German proper nouns
Category:de:Countries
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==Italian==
===Pronunciation===
* 
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan 
# Afghanistan
====Alternative spellings====
* Afganistan
====Derived terms====
* afgano / afghano
Category:Italian proper nouns
Category:it:Countries
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==Norwegian==
===Pronunciation===
* 
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan
# Afghanistan.
====Related terms====
* afghaner
* afghansk
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==Swedish==
===Proper noun===
Afghanistan
# Afghanistan.
Category:Countries
Category:Persian derivations
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