Pakhtunadj.n.

1867 H. W. Bellew Dict. Pukkhto p. vii To have given place to all the words of those languages used in an unchanged form by Pukkhtūn authors, would have added unnecessarily to the bulk of the work.

1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 116 The Afghan Prime Minister..stated that the proposed merger of West Pakistan would never be accepted or recognized either by the ‘Pakhtun nation’ or by his Government.

1973 Times 27 July 16/5 An attempt was made to raise the Pakhtun flag on the banks of the Indus.

2001 India Today (Nexis) 1 Oct. 30 Bin Laden..knows that the Pakhtun tradition of melmastia, or hospitality to a guest, is very strong.

1880 H. W. Bellew Races of Afghanistan vi. 56 Pukhtún is the proper patronymic of the people inhabiting the country called Pukhtún-khwá, and speaking the language called Pukhtú or Pukhto.

1885 G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 245/2 Paṭhán (Hindustáni, from the Pashṭo pakhṭána, the plural of pakhtun, the name of a people inhabiting the country called by Herodotus Pactiya.)

1906 A. Hamilton Afghanistan x. 263 After the Afghans the dominant people are the Pukhtun or Pathans, represented by a variety of tribes.

1940 P. Sykes Hist. Afghanistan I. i. 13 The Afghan nomads organized on a tribal system, whose true national name is Pashtun or Pakhtun, generally termed ‘Pathan’ by Europeans, belong to the Turko-Iranian type.

1955 Times 11 May 9/6 Even before 1947 the Pathans (or Pakhtoons, as they are called in their own tongue) had been claiming the right to independence.

2003 Gulf News (Nexis) 13 July Conflicts in Pakistan had been of an ethno-centric nature, involving the different ethnic groups in the country (Punjabis, Sindhis, Pakhtuns, Baluchis, [etc.]).