Pakistani
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- noun
- /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːni/
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paquistaní
- My neighbor is Pakistani and often shares stories about his family's traditions.
- most Pakistanis
- many Pakistanis
- percent of Pakistanis
Six Americans dressed as Pakistanis with an Arab who's bleeding to death.
- Six Americans dressed as Pakistanis with an Arab who's bleeding to death.
- And yet the Pakistanis say that the Indian doctrine is a bluff.
- And then after a while, one of the Pakistanis came to me and said, listen, the jail's full.
- And I had Indians, Pakistanis, Protestants, Catholics, blacks, white, Polish, Russian.
- I'm with two colleagues and two Pakistanis, and we just sit down like this is exhausting.
- They believe the Pakistanis believe that there are groups in Pakistan planning such an attack as we speak.
Examples
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Looking past him, Dave saw a young Pakistani in uniform coming down the aisle.
Fiction book (1991) -
Why should we expect the Pakistanis to care about archaeology when they're worried about staying alive?
Academic text (2002) -
Because black, white, brown or Pakistani, we all comes from the same place.
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And another Pakistani, a French national, and an Austrian are missing.
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I have a good friend who is Pakistani and he is, if you want a profile, he fits the profile perfectly.
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People who were Polish, Pakistani, West Indian, African and white working class, all in the same class.
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And all Pakistanis I have known are exceptional people.
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In this paper, we seek to explain why some Pakistanis oppose the drone program while others support it.
Academic text (2014) -
Even ordinary Pakistanis cannot legally visit the area unless they themselves have family ties there.
Academic text (2014) -
Thirty-seven percent of Pakistanis agreed with this statement, and 63 percent disagreed.
Academic text (2014)
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pakistani comes from the country name Pakistan, which is built from pak meaning 'pure' and -stan meaning 'land'. The ending -i means 'from' or 'of', like in Italian or Japanese, so a Pakistani is 'a person from Pakistan'.