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پېښور. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
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Pashto
Etymology
Corruption of Classical Persian پَرَشَاوَر (parašāwar), ultimately from Sanskrit पुरुषपुर (puruṣapura, “city of men”). More at Peshawar. Compare Northern Hindko پشور (piśaur), Punjabi پِشَور (piśaur), Persian پیشاور (pešâvar), Urdu پِشاوَر (piśāvar).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
پېښَوَر • (pex̌awar) m
- Peshawar (a city, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Further reading
- “پېښور”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.