Коротко об Афганистане

The first part of the name - "Afghan" - is a Persian word translated as "silence" or "silence"; from the Turkic languages, the word "Augan (Afghan)" is translated as "gone, hiding." This is the so-called external name of the people, in contrast to the self-designation (analogous in the Russian language can be considered the words "German", "Germans", that is, those who do not know how to speak "our way", dumb). This was the name of all foreign residents. It is also an alternative name for the Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in the country. Indeed, the territory of Afghanistan is inaccessible and convenient only for tribes who, for one reason or another, left or moved to the mountains and retained their independence from all sorts of conquerors of Central Asia.

The last part of the name, the suffix “-stan”, goes back to the Indo-European root “* stā-” (“to stand”) and in Persian means “place, country”. In modern Persian, the suffix "-istan" (Pers. ستان) is used to form toponyms - geographical names of places of residence of tribes, peoples and various ethnic groups.

The term "Afghans" as a name for a people has been used at least since the Islamic period. According to some scholars, the word "Afghan" appears for the first time in history in 982; then it meant representatives of various tribes who lived on the western border .......
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