بلوچستان

Persian

Etymology

‎ (baluč, “Baloch”) +‎ ‎ (-estân)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /baluːt͡ʃistɑːn/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /baluːt͡ʃɪstɑːn/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /bæluːt͡ʃestɒːn/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /balut͡ʃistɔn/

Proper noun

Iranian Persian	بلوچستان
Dari	بلوچستان
Tajik	Балучистон (Balučiston)

بلوچستان • (balučestân)

Balochistan

Related terms

بلوچستانی‎ (balučestâni)

Urdu

Picture dictionary

بلوچستان

بلوچستان

پاکستان کی انتظامی تقسیم

بلوچستان

خیبر پختونخوا

اسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت

آزاد جموں و کشمیر

گلگت بلتستان

مقبوضہ کشمیر

ہندوستان

افغانستان

بحیرہ عرب

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ‎ (balûčistân), equivalent to بلوچ‎ (baloc, “Baloch people”) +‎ ـستان‎ (-(i)stān, “-land”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.loː.t͡ʃɪs.t̪ɑːn/

(Deccani) IPA^(key): /bə.loː.t͡ʃɪs.t̪ɑːn/
Rhymes: -ɑːn
Hyphenation: بَ‧لو‧چِسْ‧تان

Proper noun

بَلوچِسْتَان • (balocistān) m (Hindi spelling बलूचिस्तान)

Balochistan (a province of Pakistan)
(by extension) Balochistan (a region between the Middle East and South Asia)
1. Sistan and Baluchestan (a province of Iran)
  Synonym: سیستان و بلوچستان‎ (sestān o balocistān)
2. (rare) A mountainous region of Afghanistan

See also

(administrative units of Pakistan) پاکستان کی انتظامی تقسیم‎ (pākistān kī intiz̤āmī taqsīm); آزاد کشمیر‎ (āzād kaśmīr), بلوچستان (balocistān), گلگت بلتستان‎ (gilgit baltistān), اسلام آباد وفاقی دارالحکومت‎ (islām-ābād vifāqī dār-alhakūmat), خیبر پختونخوا‎ (xaibar paxtūnxvā), پنجاب‎ (panjāb), مقبوضہ کشمیر‎ (maqbūẓa kaśmīr), سندھ‎ (sindh), ^{(Category: ur:Administrative units of Pakistan)}

References

“بلوچستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“بلوچستان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

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