2006-10-08 22:30:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Many central and south Asian states and regions end with the element -stan, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Kurdistan, and Turkistan. This -stan is formed from the Iranian root *st-, “to stand, stay,” and means “place (where one stays), home, country.”
2006-10-08 22:36:41 · answer #1 · answered by Big Blair 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The name "Pakistan" (IPA: [paËkɪst̪aËn]) means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never[3] as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India — P for Punjab, A for Afghania (the Afghan (Pashtun) areas in the Northwest Frontier Province), K for Kashmir, S for Sindh and tan for Balochistan. The i was later added to the name since in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, "istan" refers to "land of" while "pak" means pure.
Thus concludes that "istan" refers to "land of"
2006-10-08 22:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by jamshed007us 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stan is an Urdu word and it means Land.
Pakistan means "Land of the Pak (pure)"
Hindustan means "Land of the Hindus"
Cementary is called "Kabrastan" in Urdu, meaning "Land of the dead bodies and cremated remains"
Similarly, we have places like Turkistan, Kazakstan,etc.
2006-10-08 22:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The suffix -stan or -sthan is Persian for "land of" and Sanskrit for "place".
2006-10-08 23:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by Asher S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something to do with the stan in the eminem song?
man, that was lame...
2006-10-09 00:23:27 · answer #5 · answered by hechnal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋