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See also: Afghan
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈæfˌɡæn/, /ˈæfɡən/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æn
Noun
afghan (plural afghans)
- A blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A type of iced chocolate biscuit, sometimes containing cornflakes and topped with a walnut.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
afghan (feminine afghane, masculine plural afghans, feminine plural afghanes)
- (relational) of Afghanistan; Afghan
Derived terms
Further reading
- “afghan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
afghan m (definite singular afghanen, indefinite plural afghanar, definite plural afghanane)
Swedish
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Etymology
From Persian افغان (afğân, “Afghan”) via Prakrit, from Sanskrit अवगाण (avagāṇa, “Afghan”).
Noun
afghan c
- Afghan; person, chiefly male, from Afghanistan
- Synonym of afghanhund (“Afghan Hound”).
Declension
Declension of afghan | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | afghan | afghanen | afghaner | afghanerna |
Genitive | afghans | afghanens | afghaners | afghanernas |
Related terms
- Afghanistan n (“Afghanistan”)
- afghanska c (“afghan female”)
- afghansk (“Afghan”, adjective)
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- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/æn
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Australian English
- New Zealand English
- English terms derived from toponyms
- en:Bedding
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French relational adjectives
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-2012 forms
- Swedish terms derived from Persian
- Swedish terms derived from Sanskrit
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms suffixed with -an
- sv:Afghanistan
- sv:Demonyms
- sv:Ethnonyms
- sv:Nationalities