بلوچستان

From بلوچ (baluč, “Baloch”) +‎ ـستان (-estân).

Readings
Classical reading?	balōčistān
Dari reading?	balōčistān
Iranian reading?	balučestân
Tajik reading?	balučiston

Dari	بلوچستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Балучистон

بلوچستان • (balučestân)

1. Balochistan (a region on the Iranian plateau in south-western Asia, northwest of the Arabian Sea, dominated by desert and mountains, composed of southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and a strip of southwestern Afghanistan; inhabited by the Baloch people)
2. Balochistan (a province of Pakistan)

Picture dictionary
پاکستان کی انتظامی تقسیم سندھ بلوچستان پنجاب خیبر پختونخوا پنجاب اسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت آزاد جموں و کشمیر گلگت بلتستان مقبوضہ کشمیر بھارت افغانستان ایران چین بحیرہ عرب
کشمیر ہندوستان بنگلہ دیش مشرق وسطی

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلوچستان (balôčistân), equivalent to بلوچ (baloc, “Baloch people”) +‎ ـستان (-(i)stān, “-land”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.loː.t͡ʃɪs.t̪ɑːn/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: بَ‧لو‧چِسْ‧تان

بَلوچِسْتَان • (balocistān) m (Hindi spelling बलूचिस्तान)

1. Balochistan (a province of Pakistan)
2. (by extension) Balochistan (a region between the Middle East and South Asia)
   1. Sistan and Baluchestan (a province of Iran)

      Synonym: سیستان و بلوچستان (sestān o balocistān)

   2. (rare) A mountainous region of Afghanistan

• (administrative units of Pakistan) پاکِسْتان کی اِنْتِظامی تَقْسِیم (pākistān kī intizāmī taqsīm); آزاد کَشْمِیر (āzād kaśmīr), بَلوچِسْتان (balocistān), گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان (gilgit baltistān), اِسْلام آباد وِفاقی دارْاَلْحَکُومَت (islām ābād vifāqī dār-alhakūmat), خَیبَر پَخْتُونْخْوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā), پَنْجاب (panjāb), سِنْدھ (sindh), ^{(Category: ur:Provinces of Pakistan)}

• “بلوچستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بلوچستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.