[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.101 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.101 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.101 - **Language:** English ### [c10.101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.101) \*\*AFGHÁN\*\*, \*n.p.\* P.—H.—\*Afghān\*. The most general name of the predominant portion of the congeries of tribes beyond the N.W. frontier of India, whose country is called from them \*Afghānistān\*. In England one often hears the country called \*Afgunist-un\*, which is a mispronunciation painful to an Anglo-Indian ear, and even \*Afgann\*, which is a still more excruciating solecism. \[The common local pronunciation of the name is \*Aoghān\*, which accounts for some of the forms below. Bellew insists on the distinction between the Afghān and the Pathān (PUTTAN). “The Afghan is a Pathan merely because he inhabits a Pathan country, and has to a great extent mixed with its people and adopted their language” (\*Races of Af.\*, p. 25). The name represents Skt. \*asvaka\* in the sense of a ‘cavalier,’ and this reappears scarcely modified in the Assakani or Assakeni of the historians of the expedition of Alexander.\] - [Previous: c10.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.100) - [Next: c10.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.102) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.101) · Pramāṇa