Afghan vs Jezail - What's the difference?
afghan | jezail |
A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent.
A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent.
A breed of dogs, the Afghan hound.
Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
(UK, military slang)
Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.
*1887 , (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), A Study in Scarlet , I:
*:There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
*:Those deadly, long-barrelled jezails , which once wrought such slaughter among the British redcoats, had as their modern counterparts the heat-seeking Stinger, which proved so lethal against Russian helicopter-gunships.
As nouns the difference between afghan and jezail
is that afghan is a blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted while jezail is an afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.afghan
English
(wikipedia Afghan) (Origins of the name Afghan)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Afghanization, AfghanisationProper noun
(en proper noun)- He will be in Afghan for another six months.