-stan (Persian: ـستان; stân, estân or istân) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. It originated in...

note that پاک pāk, is 'pure' in Persian and Pashto and the Persian suffix ـستان -stan means 'land' or 'place of'. Rahmat Ali's concept of Pakistan only related...

+ Zan, "land of the Zan").[citation needed] The suffix -stan (Persian: ـستان, translit. stân) is Persian for region. The literal translation is, thus...

exact origins of the name Kurd are unclear. The suffix -stan (Persian: ـستان, translit. stân) is Persian for land. "Kurdistan" was also formerly spelled...

Persian, probably from the first century CE, the suffix -stān (Persian: ستان) was added, indicative of a country or region, forming the name Hindūstān...

ـ گوٹھ ) means settlement or town. Example: Yousuf Goth. -istan (Urdu: ـستان ) means land. Example: Baltistan, Balochistan. Khel or -khel (Urdu: خیل )...

ـ گوٹھ ) means settlement or town. Example: Yousuf Goth. -istan (Urdu: ـستان ) means land. Example: Pakistan. -kot (Urdu: ـکوٹ ) means settlement or town...

Sulayman (1892), "ستان", New Persian-English Dictionary, vol. 2, Tehran: Librairie imprimerie Béroukhim, p. 30 Quote= ستان (p. V2-0030) ستان (۲) Suffix meaning...

(Հայաստան) derives from earlier Armenian Hayk (Հայք) and Persian -stān (ستان). Hayk' derives from Old Armenian Haykʿ (հայք), traditionally derived from...

from Persian بوستان bustaan flower or herb garden, from بو bo fragrance + ستان -stan place. one of the imperial guards of Turkey whose duties include protecting...

Sangestan (Persian: سنگ ستان, also Romanized as Sangestān) is a village in Amjaz Rural District, in the Central District of Anbarabad County, Kerman Province...