Pakistan

See also: Pakistán, Pákistán, and Päkistan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu پاکستان (pākistān, “Land of the Holy”), from پاک (pāk, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Classical Persian ـستان (-stān,-istān, “-stan”). The word was coined by Pakistani politician Chuhdary Rahmat Ali in 1933, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan. Absent from said acronym (which may possibly a backronym) is the letter ⟨i⟩, which is sometimes erroneously said to stand for the Indus, but it is in fact epenthetic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, /ˌpækɪˈstɑːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, (proscribed) /ˈpækɪˌstæn/, (proscribed) /ˌpækɪˈstæn/

  • Audio (US); /ˈpɑːkɪˌstɑːn/:

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  • Audio (US); /ˈpækɪˌstæn/:

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpækəˌstaːn/, /ˈpækəˌstæn/

Proper noun

Pakistan

2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.
   • 2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times‎:

     Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.

   • 2022 June 15, Rhea Mogul, “Pakistanis told to drink less tea as nation grapples with economic crisis”, in CNN‎:

     Sharif at the time said the decision “will save the country precious foreign exchange” and that Pakistan has to “practice austerity.”

Derived terms

• East Pakistan
• Hazara Pakistan
• Pakistani
• West Pakistan

Translations

country in South Asia

Abkhaz: Пакистан (Pʼakʼistʼan) Acehnese: Pakistan Afrikaans: Pakistan Albanian: Pakistan m Amharic: ፓኪስታን (pakistan) Arabic: بَاكِسْتَان (ar) f (bākistān), الْبَاكِسْتَان (ar) f (al-bākistān) Hijazi Arabic: الباكستان f (al-bākistān) Armenian: Պակիստան (Pakistan) Assamese: পাকিস্তান (pakistan) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܵܟܸܣܛܵܢ f (pakistan) Asturian: Paquistán (ast) Azerbaijani: Pakistan (az) Cyrillic: Пакистан Baluchi: پاکستان (pākestān) Bashkir: Пакистан (Pakistan) Belarusian: Пакіста́н m (Pakistán) Bengali: পাকিস্তান (bn) (pakistan) Bikol Central: Pakistan Breton: Pakistan (br) Bulgarian: Пакиста́н (bg) m (Pakistán) Burmese: ပါကစ္စတန် (pakacca.tan) Catalan: Pakistan (ca) Cebuano: Pakistan Chavacano: Pakistan Chinese: Cantonese: 巴基斯坦 (baa1 gei1 si1 taan2) Mandarin: 巴基斯坦 (zh) (Bājīsītǎn) Cornish: Pakistan Crimean Tatar: Pakistan Czech: Pákistán (cs) m Danish: Pakistan (da) n Dhivehi: ޕާކިސްތާން (pākistān̊) Dutch: Pakistan (nl) n Dzongkha: པ་ཀིསི་ཏཱན། (pa kisi tān) Esperanto: Pakistano (eo) Estonian: Pakistan (et) Fiji Hindi: Pakistan Finnish: Pakistan (fi) French: Pakistan (fr) m Galician: Paquistán (gl) m Georgian: პაკისტანი (ka) (ṗaḳisṭani) German: Pakistan (de) n Greek: Πακιστάν (el) n (Pakistán) Greenlandic: Pakistan Gujarati: પાકિસ્તાન (pākistān) Hausa: Pakistan Hawaiian: Pakitana Hebrew: פָּקִיסְטָן m (pakistán) Hindi: पाकिस्तान (hi) m (pākistān), पाकिसतान (hi) m (pākistān), पाकिस्तन (hi) m (pākistan), पकिस्तान m (pakistān), (formal: इस्लामी गणराज्य पाकिस्तान m (islāmī gaṇrājya pākistān), इस्लामी गणतंत्र पाकिस्तान m (islāmī gaṇtantra pākistān), पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणराज्य m (pākistān islāmī gaṇrājya), पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणतंत्र m (pākistān islāmī gaṇtantra), इस्लामी जम्हूरिया पाकिस्तान m (islāmī jamhūriyā pākistān), इस्लामी जम्हूरिया ए पाकिस्तान m (islāmī jamhūriyā e pākistān)), पश्चिमी पाकिस्तान m (paścimī pākistān) (historical) Hungarian: Pakisztán (hu) Icelandic: Pakistan (is) n Ido: Pakistan (io) Ilocano: Pakistan Indonesian: Pakistan (id) Interlingua: Pakistan Inuktitut: ᐸᑭᔅᑕᓐ (pakistan) Irish: An Phacastáin f Italian: Pakistan (it) m, Pachistania f Japanese: パキスタン (ja) (Pakisutan) Javanese: Pakistan Kabyle: Pakistan Kalenjin: Pakistani Kamba: Pakistani Kannada: ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ್ (kn) (pākistān) Kapampangan: Pakistan Kashmiri: پاکِستان m (pākistān) Kashubian: Pakistan Kazakh: Пәкістан (kk) (Päkıstan), Пәкстан (Päkstan) Arabic: پاكىستان Khmer: ប៉ាគីស្ថាន (km) (paakiisthaan) Kikuyu: Pakistan Korean: 파키스탄 (ko) (Pakiseutan), 빠끼스딴 (Ppakkiseuttan) (North Korea) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پاکستان (pakistan) Northern Kurdish: Pakistan (ku) Kyrgyz: Пакистан (ky) (Pakistan) Lak: Пакисттан (Pakist:an) Lao: ປາກິດສະຖານ (lo) (pā kit sa thān), ປາກິດສະຖານ (lo) (pā kit sa thān) Latin: Pācistānia f Latvian: Pakistāna (lv) f Ligurian: Pakistan Lithuanian: Pakistanas (lt) m Lower Sorbian: Pakistan Luhya: Pakistan Luo: Pakistan Macedonian: Пакиста́н (mk) m (Pakistán) Malay: Pakistan (ms) Malayalam: പാക്കിസ്ഥാന് (pākkisthānŭ) Maltese: il-Pakistan Maori: Pakitāne Marathi: पाकिस्तान (pākistān) Meru: Pakistan Mongolian: Cyrillic: Пакистан (mn) (Pakistan) Mongolian: ᠫᠠᠺᠢᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠨ (pakistan) Nauruan: Pakistan Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah Norman: Pakistan m Norwegian: Bokmål: Pakistan (no) n Nynorsk: Pakistan (nn) n Occitan: Paquistan (oc) m Odia: ପାକିସ୍ତାନ (pākistāna) Papiamentu: Pakistan Pashto: پاکستان (ps) m (pākestān) Persian: Classical Persian: پَاکِسْتَان (pākistān) Dari: پَاکِسْتَان (pākistān) Iranian Persian: پاکِسْتان (pâkestân) Polish: Pakistan (pl) m inan Portuguese: Paquistão (pt) m Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ m (pākistān), ਪਾਕਸਤਾਨ (pāksatān) Shahmukhi: پاکِسْتان m (pākistān), پاکَسْتان (pākastān) Rohingya: Pakistán Romanian: Pakistan (ro) m Cyrillic: Пакистан (ro) n (Pachistan) Russian: Пакиста́н (ru) m (Pakistán) Samogitian: Pakėstans m Santali: ᱯᱟᱠᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ (pakistan) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Па̏киста̄н m Roman: Pȁkistān (sh) m Sicilian: Pakistan Silesian: Pakistan Sindhi: پاڪستان (sd) (pākistān) Sinhalese: පාකිස්ථානය (pākisthānaya), පකිස්‍තානය (pakistānaya) Slovak: Pakistan (sk) m Slovene: Pakistan (sl) m Spanish: Pakistán (es) m, Paquistán (es) m Sundanese: Pakistan Swahili: Pakistani (sw) Swedish: Pakistan (sv) n Tagalog: Pakistan Tajik: Покистон (tg) (Pokiston) Tamil: பாகிஸ்தான் (ta) (pākistāṉ), பாக்கிஸ்தான் (ta) (pākkistāṉ), பாக்கித்தான் (ta) (pākkittāṉ) Tat: Pakestan Tatar: Пакистан (Paqistan) Telugu: పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pākistān), పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pākistān) Thai: ปากีสถาน (th) (bpaa-gii-sà-tǎan) Tibetan: པ་ཀི་སི་ཐན (pa ki si than) Turkish: Pakistan (tr) Turkmen: Päkistan, Pakystan Cyrillic: Пәкистан, Пакыстан Ukrainian: Пакиста́н (uk) m (Pakystán) Upper Sorbian: Pakistan Urdu: پاکِسْتان (ur) m (pākistān) Uyghur: پاكىستان (pakistan), پاكستان (pakstan) Cyrillic: Пакстан (Pakstan) Uzbek: Pokiston (uz) Cyrillic: Покистон (Pokiston) Vietnamese: Pa-ki-xtan Volapük: Pakistän Walloon: Pakistan Waray-Waray: Pakistan Welsh: Pacistan f West Frisian: Pakistan (fy) Yiddish: פּאַקיסטאַן (pakistan) Yoruba: Pakistan Zhuang: Bahgihswhdanj

See also

• Countries of the world

countries in Asia (appendix)edit

• Afghanistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• Cyprus
• East Timor
• Georgia
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• North Korea
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen

• East Pakistan, West Pakistan

Further reading

• Pakistan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pakistan on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Pakistan on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Pakistan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		Пакистан
Abjad		پاکستان

Proper noun

Pakistan (definite accusative Pakistanı, plural Pakistanlar)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Declension

Declension of Pakistan

	singular	plural
nominative	Pakistan	Pakistanlar
definite accusative	Pakistanı	Pakistanları
dative	Pakistana	Pakistanlara
locative	Pakistanda	Pakistanlarda
ablative	Pakistandan	Pakistanlardan
definite genitive	Pakistanın	Pakistanların

Possessive forms of Pakistan

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanım	Pakistanlarım
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanın	Pakistanların
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanı	Pakistanları
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımız	Pakistanlarımız
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınız	Pakistanlarınız
onların (“their”)	Pakistanı or Pakistanları	Pakistanları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımı	Pakistanlarımı
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanını	Pakistanlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanını	Pakistanlarını
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızı	Pakistanlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızı	Pakistanlarınızı
onların (“their”)	Pakistanını or Pakistanlarını	Pakistanlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanıma	Pakistanlarıma
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanına	Pakistanlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanına	Pakistanlarına
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımıza	Pakistanlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınıza	Pakistanlarınıza
onların (“their”)	Pakistanına or Pakistanlarına	Pakistanlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımda	Pakistanlarımda
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanında	Pakistanlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanında	Pakistanlarında
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızda	Pakistanlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızda	Pakistanlarınızda
onların (“their”)	Pakistanında or Pakistanlarında	Pakistanlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımdan	Pakistanlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanından	Pakistanlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanından	Pakistanlarından
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızdan	Pakistanlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızdan	Pakistanlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	Pakistanından or Pakistanlarından	Pakistanlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımın	Pakistanlarımın
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanının	Pakistanlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanının	Pakistanlarının
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızın	Pakistanlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızın	Pakistanlarınızın
onların (“their”)	Pakistanının or Pakistanlarının	Pakistanlarının

Derived terms

• pakistanlı

Further reading

• Pakistan on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.kisˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.kisˈtan]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• pakistanès

Further reading

• Pakistan on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has an article on:

Pakistan

Wikipedia ^crh

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Danish

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Related terms

• pakistaner
• pakistansk

Further reading

• Pakistan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Faroese

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان (literally “Land of the Pure”), from پاک (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ـستان (-estân, “-stan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰaʰkistan/

Proper noun

Pakistan n

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Pakistan

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Urdu پاکستان.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑkistɑn/, [ˈpɑ̝k̟is̠tɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -ɑkistɑn
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧kis‧tan
• Hyphenation^(key): Pa‧kis‧tan

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Pakistan (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Pakistan	—
genitive		Pakistanin	—
partitive		Pakistania	—
illative		Pakistaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Pakistan	—
accusative	nom.	Pakistan	—
	gen.	Pakistanin
genitive		Pakistanin	—
partitive		Pakistania	—
inessive		Pakistanissa	—
elative		Pakistanista	—
illative		Pakistaniin	—
adessive		Pakistanilla	—
ablative		Pakistanilta	—
allative		Pakistanille	—
essive		Pakistanina	—
translative		Pakistaniksi	—
abessive		Pakistanitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Pakistan (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Pakistanini — accusative nom. Pakistanini — gen. Pakistanini genitive Pakistanini — partitive Pakistaniani — inessive Pakistanissani — elative Pakistanistani — illative Pakistaniini — adessive Pakistanillani — ablative Pakistaniltani — allative Pakistanilleni — essive Pakistaninani — translative Pakistanikseni — abessive Pakistanittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Pakistanisi — accusative nom. Pakistanisi — gen. Pakistanisi genitive Pakistanisi — partitive Pakistaniasi — inessive Pakistanissasi — elative Pakistanistasi — illative Pakistaniisi — adessive Pakistanillasi — ablative Pakistaniltasi — allative Pakistanillesi — essive Pakistaninasi — translative Pakistaniksesi — abessive Pakistanittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Pakistanimme — accusative nom. Pakistanimme — gen. Pakistanimme genitive Pakistanimme — partitive Pakistaniamme — inessive Pakistanissamme — elative Pakistanistamme — illative Pakistaniimme — adessive Pakistanillamme — ablative Pakistaniltamme — allative Pakistanillemme — essive Pakistaninamme — translative Pakistaniksemme — abessive Pakistanittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Pakistaninne — accusative nom. Pakistaninne — gen. Pakistaninne genitive Pakistaninne — partitive Pakistanianne — inessive Pakistanissanne — elative Pakistanistanne — illative Pakistaniinne — adessive Pakistanillanne — ablative Pakistaniltanne — allative Pakistanillenne — essive Pakistaninanne — translative Pakistaniksenne — abessive Pakistanittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Pakistaninsa — accusative nom. Pakistaninsa — gen. Pakistaninsa genitive Pakistaninsa — partitive Pakistaniaan Pakistaniansa — inessive Pakistanissaan Pakistanissansa — elative Pakistanistaan Pakistanistansa — illative Pakistaniinsa — adessive Pakistanillaan Pakistanillansa — ablative Pakistaniltaan Pakistaniltansa — allative Pakistanilleen Pakistanillensa — essive Pakistaninaan Pakistaninansa — translative Pakistanikseen Pakistaniksensa — abessive Pakistanittaan Pakistanittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• pakistanilainen

compounds

• Itä-Pakistan
• Länsi-Pakistan
• pakistaninsiili

Anagrams

• pakastin, pankista, pinkasta

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Pakistan

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.kis.tɑ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• Pakistanais
• pakistanais

See also

countries in Asia: pays d'Asie (appendix)edit

• Afghanistan
• Arabie saoudite
• Arménie
• Azerbaïdjan
• Bahreïn
• Bangladesh
• Bhoutan
• Birmanie
• Brunei
• Cambodge
• Chine
• Chypre
• Corée du Nord
• Corée du Sud
• Émirats arabes unis
• Géorgie
• Inde
• Indonésie
• Irak
• Iran
• Israël
• Japon
• Jordanie
• Kazakhstan
• Kirghizistan
• Koweït
• Laos
• Liban
• Malaisie
• Maldives
• Mongolie
• Népal
• Oman
• Ouzbékistan
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Russie
• Singapour
• Sri Lanka
• Syrie
• Tadjikistan
• Thaïlande
• Timor oriental
• Turkménistan
• Turquie
• Vietnam
• Yémen

Gagauz

Gagauz Wikipedia has an article on:

Pakistan

Wikipedia ^gag

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Pakistan

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

• Audio (Germany):

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Proper noun

Pakistan n (proper noun, genitive Pakistans or (optionally with an article) Pakistan, plural (rare) Pakistan)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• pakistanisch
• Pakistaner
• Ostpakistan
• Westpakistan

Related terms

• Pakistani

Further reading

• “Pakistan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hausa

Etymology

From English Pakistan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /páː.kís.tàn/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [páː.cɪ́s.tàŋ]

Proper noun

Pākistàn f

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)