Australia vs Afghan - What's the difference?
australia | afghan |
A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
* 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
* 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 (
(geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.
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.
As a adjective australia
is .As a noun afghan is
a blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted.australia
English
(wikipedia Australia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
at Project Gutenberg)
- Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
Synonyms
* (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, SahulHypernyms
* AntipodesDerived terms
* Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * WestraliaSee also
* * AU * Aust *External links
*Australia time zoneswith map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----
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.