Words
Hello – سلام salam
Mom – مور
Dad – پلار
Cousin – د کاکا، ماما، ترور زوی یا لور
Brother – ورور
Sister – خور
Cat – پیشو
Dog – سپی
Car – موټر
Home – کور
Phase
How are you – څنګه یاست
I am learning pashto – زه پښتو زده کوم
What are you doing – ته څه کوې
What time is it – څه وخت دی
See you later – ورسته به ګورو
What’s up – څه خبره ده
Can i come for dinner – ایا زه کولی شم د ډوډۍ لپاره راشم؟
Do you know how to get here – ایا تاسو پوهیږئ چې دلته څنګه رسیدلی شئ
That is my cousin – دا زما د تره زوی دی
Race you haha – ریس تاسو هاهاها
Work gets done by doing it – کار په کولو کېږي- kār pə kawә́lo kéǵi
Although a cow be black, her milk is white-غوا که توره ده, شيدې يې سپينې دي- ğwā kә tóra da šidé ye spíne di
In a desert, once, on a hunt I did find. A flower so fair with a radiant smile. In a desert, once, on a hunt I did find.
Sufi Poem Translated from Pashto
Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right.
It lands left.
I ride after a deer and find myself
chased by a hog.
I plot to get what I want
and end up in prison.
I dig pits to trap others
and fall in.
I should be suspicious
of what I want
History
Pashto can be written many ways. Pashtu, Paktho, or Pakhtu. Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language which is a sub-family Indo-European languages like Latvian or Lithuanian.
Pashto is the primary language of Afghanistan with about 50 million speakers.
Pashtuns live in northeastern Afghanistan between the Hindus Kush and the Indus River.
The Pashto alphabet uses the Arabic script and totals 45 letters.
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