Afghan vs Arran

Afghan

name
  • Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. 

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community. 

  • Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan. 

noun
  • A person of Pashtun ethnicity. 

  • Synonym of Afghan Hound. 

  • A person from Afghanistan. 

Arran

name
  • In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, laying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania. 

  • A village in Saskatchewan, Canada. 

  • A male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage. 

  • Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland) 

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