Crossword clues for afghani
afghani
- Khyber Pass traveler
- The basic unit of money in Afghanistan
- An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- What some Asians spend in Ghana, if abroad
- Freak ringing Mercury up in capital
- Asian, one pursuing a lover around Grand Hotel
- Pashto language
- Kabul native
- Pakistani neighbor
- Like President Karzai
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afghani \Afghani\ adj. 1. 1 a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
Syn: Afghan, Afghanistani, afghanistani
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to Afghanistan, its people, or its language. n. 1 A citizen or native of Afghanistan. From an Afghan point of view this name is wrongly being used for Afghans. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran. The Pakistanis and the international aid agencies coined this word to speak of Pakistanis versus the Afghans. 2 (context usually lowercase English) A monetary currency used in Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul. See afghani.
Wikipedia
Afghani may refer to:
- Afghan afghani, official currency of Afghanistan
- An Afghan, a person or thing of, from, or related to Afghanistan (although this usage is viewed as improper)
- The Pashto language, which is also referred to as Afghani or Afghani language
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, a Muslim nationalist and modernist in the late 19th century
- Jamila Afghani, an Afghan feminist and women's rights activist
Usage examples of "afghani".
I saw him wink at the one-armed kitchen boy and slip him a couple of crumpled Afghani notes.
The three Afghani officers ranged themselves around the room, an ominous presence.
He would rouse the tribes on this side of the frontier to join his Afghani forces, he might even call on a little Russian support.
But it had not been Lily who had kept this tryst but two Afghani tribesmen.
The rest had been shot and slashed to pieces by Afghani tribesmen, the women with them killed or taken hostage.
Boots, the whole thing should have fallen apart, because Boots is a poster child for gene-pool dilution, but Holovka had made an alliance with an Afghani warlord.
Podolak is the farthest eastern outpost of a criminal enterprise with its roots in Afghanistan, under the entrepreneurial direction of an Afghani named Haji Haroon.
He had eaten much worse food and been glad to get it, both as a boy and more recently, when he had shared campfires and rations with Afghani miners.
It worked, up until he tried to beat some Afghani smugglers at their own game.
We paid with a sheaf of Afghanis, drank the tea his sweating assistant had brought, and parted from him on a wave of mutual good wishes.
She turned the glasses to the Afghanis encamped below on the football field.
Apparently the Afghanis were chattering and even singing round their fires until late in the night.
Two Afghanis escorted a smaller figure who had been, unlike him, riding free.
He noted distances from friendly forts, fuel supplies, possible landing areas and traced the known route of the escaping Afghanis to the last known point nearly half-way along the Khyber.
His finger traced the route the Afghanis had taken from the fort up towards the Khyber.