Comprehensive Pashto Dictionary & Lexicon
د پښتو جامع قاموس — Pashtodictionary.com
The authoritative open-access Comprehensive Pashto Dictionary & Lexicon for scholars, learners, and native speakers. Features instant multi-script search, Southwest vs. Northeast dual-dialect phonetics, and complete morphological declensions.
کلمه د ورځې· Word of the Day
life, existence, livelihood, vitality
زندگی، حیات، بود وباش
«ژوند د عمل او تکل نوم دی، نه د بې وسۍ او ناهيلۍ.»
"Life is the name of action and resolve, not of helplessness and despair."
د پښتو ټول ۴۴ توري(Browse 44 Pashto Letters)
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Trilingual Lexicography
Every lemma is cross-referenced with authoritative English glosses, authentic Urdu Nastaliq calligraphy, and native Pashto scholarly explanations verified against primary corpora.
Dual-Dialect Acoustic Standards
Phonetic transcriptions cover both Southwestern (Kandahar / Quetta: ښ=/ʂ/, ږ=/ʐ/) and Northeastern (Peshawar / Kabul: ښ=/x/, ږ=/ɡ/) authentic regional pronunciations and IPA.
Morphological Engine
Never get blocked by an inflected noun or verb form. Our database parses oblique cases, plural markers (-ūnah, -ūno), vocatives, and compound verbs directly back to roots.
Standardized Trilingual Lexicography, Dialectology & Attestation
Historical Corpora & Modern Institutional Harmonization
The Open Pashto Lexicon integrates authoritative historical scholarship with contemporary linguistic research. Entries are harmonized across the foundational lexicons of Major H.G. Raverty (1860) and Dr. H.W. Bellew (1867), cross-referenced with peer-reviewed publications from the Afghan Academy of Sciences (د افغانستان د علومو اکاډمي) and the Pashto Academy at the University of Peshawar (پښتو اکېډمي پېښور پوهنتون).
Every headword undergoes tripartite validation: orthographic normalization, grammatical categorization (declensional class and transitivity), and bilingual verification in English and Nastaliq Urdu.
Acoustic Phonetics & Dialect Geography
Pashto exhibits rich dialectal diversity across five primary phonetic zones: Southwestern (Kandahar), Northwestern (Central Ghilji), Northeastern (Ningrahar / Eastern), Southeastern (Quetta / Kakar), and Eastern (Peshawar). Our dictionary records exact International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions for both Southern and Northern standards.
Crucially, the graphemes ښ (ṣ̌ / x̌ / x) and ږ (ẓ̌ / ǵ / g) are disambiguated across southern retroflex fricatives and northern velar/palatal stops, providing students, translators, and natural language processing (NLP) models with acoustic precision.
Comprehensive Pashto Lexicography & Search Features
Everything you need to know about the Open Pashto Lexicon platform, corpus sources, and search capabilities.
126,184+ Verified Lemmas
Consolidated from major historical dictionaries (Raverty, Bellew) and contemporary Afghan and Pakistani lexicographic institutes. Every entry features phonetic transcriptions and trilingual glosses.
Dialect Disambiguation
Clear phonological distinctions between Southern (Kandahar / Quetta) and Northern (Kabul / Peshawar) Pashto, explaining exact phonetic realisations for ښ, ږ, څ, and ځ.
Instant Multi-Script FTS5
High-speed SQLite FTS5 search engine supporting Pashto script, Urdu Nastaliq, Romanized transliteration, and English queries with instant fuzzy matching and prefix lookups.
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