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US
/ˈpæθən/
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NOUN
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a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan
Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan - an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan
How To Use Pathan In A Sentence
- Some even began to urge the hakim not to wait for the Orakzai Pathan, but to start with what he had. In The Time Of Light
- And Lenox, still watching the man's movements with a strange mingling of indifference and triumph, saw the miracle-worker -- of whose powers he knew far more than the Pathan -- disappear unhindered into the folds of the man's kummerbund; saw himself once more a free man, -- captain of the soul and body given into his charge. The Great Amulet
- But one of them, the Orakzai Pathan (for nothing could completely unman him), shouted to know whether it was true that pardons had been offered for deserters, and Courtenay nodded. In The Time Of Light
- Khan is a Pathan, the predominant group in the Northwest Frontier, although he grew up in Punjab.
- That's Buldoo the _budmash_ '--' Bhuldoo be shot! 'sez we,' 'Tis a woild dissolute Pathan frum the hills. Indian Tales
- Two Hindus were unpacking bundles out of a creaking araba, watched scornfully by an unmistakable Pathan. The Eye of Zeitoon
- Members - collectively called Pathans - guard a fierce independence where guns, drugs and contraband are a way of life.
- Pathan was vice chancellor of the university for two terms and recently demitted the office.
- I knew what was happening as well as if I was seeing it - the Company riders, out-sabred, would be drawing off, and sure enough presently the Pathans came down the nullah in good order, clustered round Damodar and the Rani's women; among the last to come was Lakshmibai. Fiancée
- he asked in awkward Pushtu, which the man would understand despite not being Pathan. THE LAST RAVEN
