Nuristani

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Nuristani

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From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

noun Nuristanis

Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.

proper noun

One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.

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@misc{nuristani_2026,
  title = {Nuristani},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nuristani},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}