Pathanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pəˈtɑːn/

名詞

Pathan (plural Pathans)

1. (British India, South Asia) Synonym of Pashtun; a member of the Pashto-speaking people of today’s north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, pages 44–5:

     After long deliberation about the choice of nations, I became a “Pathán.”

   • 1958 November, M. H. Baker, “The North Borneo Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 783:

     The 57-mile line from Jesselton to Beaufort was a more substantial undertaking than that from Weston, and a contract was given to the firm of George Pauling & Company, which brought many Pathans, veterans of railway building in India, to tackle the job.

Further reading

• “Pathan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Pathan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Pathan”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025
• “Pathan”, in Collins English Dictionary.