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Afghan vs Dane - What's the difference?

afghan | dane |

As nouns the difference between afghan and dane

is that afghan is a person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent while Dane is a person from Denmark or of Danish descent.

As proper nouns the difference between afghan and dane

is that afghan is pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan while Dane is {{surname|from=nicknames}} for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.

As an adjective Afghan

is of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.

afghan

English

(wikipedia Afghan) (Origins of the name Afghan)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent.
  • A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent.
  • A breed of dogs, the Afghan hound.

    • Derived terms

    * Afghanization, Afghanisation

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
  • (UK, military slang)
    • He will be in Afghan for another six months.

    Synonyms

    * Pashtun * Pashto

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
  • Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.

    • See also

    *

    dane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
  • (historical) A member of the Danes, a .

    • Synonyms

    * (person from Denmark) Danish

    Derived terms

    * Great Dane

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
  • * 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13
    • Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane ". He liked that one. It suggested something.
  • transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
  • * 1977 , The Thorn Birds , Gramercy Books 1998, ISBN 0517201658, pages 432-433
    • "I'm going to call him Dane ."
    "What a queer name! Why? Is it an O'Neill family name? I thought you were finished with the O'Neills."
    "It's got nothing to do with Luke. This is his name, no one else's. - - - I called Justine Justine simply because I liked the name, and I'm calling Dane Dane for the same reason."
    "Well, it does have a nice ring to it," Fee admitted.

    Anagrams

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