Afghani/Pashto words in English
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Topic: Afghani/Pashto words in English
Posted By: AFG-PaShTuN
Subject: Afghani/Pashto words in English
Date Posted: 10-Nov-2006 at 21:28
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Hello and peace be upon everyone, I had a full list of over a 100 words of Pashto origin that are also used in English, i've lost it, i hope to find that soon, until that, i would like ny Pashtuns here to input more words into this list if they can. PASHTO ----------------- ENGLISH DEEP --------------------- Deep OK ------------------------ Ok YEAH --------------------- Yeah SO ------------------------ SO LARAY -------------------- Away STHORAI ----------------- Star SALOUR ------------------ Four NORE ---------------------- More PAR ------------------------ For KOR -------------------------- [House] But the English word, CORE is believed to have been derieved from this word ....................... ------------- 
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 11-Nov-2006 at 09:21
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I don't think that any of those English words have really Pashto origins, it was better to say similar Pashto and English words. ------------- 
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Posted By: AFG-PaShTuN
Date Posted: 11-Nov-2006 at 20:11
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Maybe the do, maybe they don't, i haven't made any attempt at learning about that, but hopefully i will.
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