Definition of "Pashtun"

Pashtun

adjective
comparative more Pashtun, superlative most Pashtun
1. Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.
  Quotations
  “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”
  2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 85
noun
plural Pashtuns
1. A member of the Pashtun ethnic group, or of a Pashtun tribe.
  Quotations
  “They bring shame on me as a Pashtun. They’ve disgraced the name of my people.”
  2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), pages 310–311
2. A Pashto-speaking person.
proper noun
1. Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.