Pakistan is the South Asian country of Karachi and the second-highest peak on earth. Travel to Pakistan, born in Pakistan, the north of Pakistan.
K2 stands on its northern border and is far more dangerous to climb than Everest. The country was created in 1947 at the partition of British India, and the name was coined in the 1930s from the initials of its regions.
1nounpakistanA country in South Asia.
“Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan.”
pakistan is a country.
Urdu
پاکستان
English
Pakistan
English, today
pakistan
Pakistan Borrowed from Urdu پاکستان. Borrowed from پاکستان. coined by Q263795 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 be a backronym) is the letter i, which is epenthetic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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