Pathan

[ puh-tahn, puh t-hahn ]

/ pəˈtɑn, pətˈhɑn /

Afghan(def 1).

an Afghan dwelling in India.

Example sentences from the Web for pathan

One of my Lahore friends is the daughter of a high-ranking officer in the Frontier Corps who is Pathan.

Pakistan's Yuppies in Danger |Lorraine Adams |May 12, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Riding along the Pass one sees posted at intervals, on rock or peak, the Pathan sentry keeping guard.

At the Court of the Amr |John Alfred Gray
In the course of the century it was conquered by the Pathans and formed part of the Pathan kingdom of Bengal.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 |Various
The Pathan next King leaned over to whisper to him again, but stiffened in the act.

King--of the Khyber Rifles |Talbot Mundy

A Pathan gave a Hindu banker some money to keep for him and lent his dog to guard the banker's house.

Beast and Man in India |John Lockwood Kipling
No Afghan or Pathan can stand the strain of being taken in rear; a sauve qui peut becomes at once the order of the day.

The Story of the Guides |G. J. Younghusband

Pathan

/ (pəˈtɑːn) /

a member of the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan, NW Pakistan, and elsewhere, most of whom are Muslim in religion

C17: from Hindi