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Kabuli, a. and n.|kəˈbuːlɪ|
Also Cabuli, Kabulian.
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the city or province of Kabul in Afghanistan.
1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 173 Baskets of fruit and pistachio nuts and Cabuli grapes. 1893― Day's Work (1898) 3 A little switch-tailed Kabuli pony. 1909Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 5/1 These Cabuli rooks do not visit us every winter. 1966P. King Afghanistan 64 (caption) Kabuli carpet seller.
B. n. A person or animal from Kabul; also, the Iranian language of some of the people of this area or its script.
1895Kipling Day's Work (1898) 188 You're to take one of Sir Jim's horses. There's a gray Cabuli here. 1909M. Diver Candles in Wind xi. 112 He urged the Kabuli forward. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 301 The Kharoshthi, which is called also Bactrian..Kabulian..and so forth. 1964H. H. Paper tr. Shafeev's Short Gram. Outl. Pashto 1 Until 1936 the official language of Afghanistan was Kabuli, one of the dialects of Tajik. |