NURISTANI


Meaning of NURISTANI in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌnu̇r-ə-ˈstä-nē, ˌnyu̇r- ]

noun

Etymology: Nuristan, Afghanistan

Date: 1951

1. : a member of a group of peoples of the Hindu Kush in northeastern Afghanistan

2. : the family of languages spoken by the Nuristanis that constitutes a distinct branch of Indo-Iranian

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.