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Pakistani

Pakistani

108 2.2
About Pakistan, its people, or its language
  • adjective
  • /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːni/
translation icon : paquistaní
  • The very next day, there he is on the news, the Pakistani news, standing in front of the destroyed door.
  • the Pakistani government
  • Pakistani military
  • Pakistani troops

Are there right now British, Pakistani gangs exploiting children?

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Examples

  • Much has been made of the alleged Pakistani support for the Kashmiri militants.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In fact, the Indus flows right through the valley corridor that connects Indian and Pakistani-held Kashmir.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It's the Pakistani Military Academy.

  • And this is like an old school Pakistani tradition.

  • That seems to be very much an Islamic Pakistani issue all across the country.

  • I'm not your typical Pakistani father who says you must be a doctor.

  • Now it is the Pakistani government that buys copies of our reports in volume.

    Academic text (1995)
  • We have perhaps a million and a half Americans of Indian and Pakistani descent.

    Academic text (1995)
  • By coincidence, the Pakistani doctor was present when Mrs. Rodgers's husband died.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The Pakistani government announced new policies to improve education in the country.

Compounds

The official money of Pakistan equal to 100 paisa

Surface Forms

Pakistani positive

Morphology

Pakistani = Pakistan (transparent) = Pakistan + i

The adjective is formed regularly from the country name with the demonymic suffix '-i', which is semantically clear.

Etymology

Pakistani as an adjective comes from Pakistan plus the ending -i, which means 'from' or 'of', just like in Italian and Japanese. That's why Pakistani describes something 'from Pakistan', such as food, language, or culture.