-stan

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬,,.

Usage notes
Corresponding demonym usually formed by suffixing, yielding. When the root is an ethnicity, the form refers to the nationality, not ethnicity. Compare and.

Translations

 * Arabic: ـسْتَان
 * Armenian: -ստան
 * Assamese: স্থান
 * Azerbaijani: -istan, -stan
 * Bashkir: -стан
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: -斯坦
 * Czech: -stán, -istán
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: -stan
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ־סטן, ־סתאן, ־סטאן
 * Hindi: -स्तान, स्तान, इस्तान,
 * Kazakh: -стан
 * Khmer:
 * Kyrgyz: -стан
 * Latvian: -stāna
 * Lithuanian: -stanas
 * Middle Persian: -stʾn'
 * Ottoman Turkish: ـستان
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: -istão
 * Russian: -иста́н,
 * Spanish: -istán, -stán
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: -истон, -стон
 * Tamil: -ஸ்தான்
 * Tatar: -стан
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, -stan
 * Turkmen: -istan, -stan
 * Ukrainian: -стан
 * Urdu: ستان
 * Uzbek: -iston, -ston