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		sumedh on June 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notes on Tajikistan > (in?)famous -stan suffix, coming originally from Persian Does it come from Persian or some common Indo European language, Sanskrit has something similar as well.

theanonymousone on June 21, 2024 | [–]

I always thought it's Persian, but it may be older, and it does certainly have cognates in Sanskrit too.

Wiktionary is amazing for such information.

hot_gril on June 21, 2024 | [–]

It's an extremely old word

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