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August 31 edit
"Da" Afghanistan Bank edit
What does "da" mean in Da Afghanistan Bank (Pashto: د افغانستان بانک; Dari: بانک مرکزی افغانستان). "Central"? "The"? --Error (talk) 15:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know if this is the answer, Error, but wikt:د#Pashto says (under "Etymology 2")
Preposition د • (dë) of
--ColinFine (talk) 15:37, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- That makes a lot of sense. Pashto grammar#Prepositions has
- Mark possession e.g. د سړي لاس [A man's hand]
- So it seems that Pashto puts noun phrases before their main nouns. However that article also says:
- The salient exception to the head-final principle can be found in adpositional phrases, given the existence of prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions
Resolved- --Error (talk) 15:50, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- My word that's quite a mouthful. I didn't know Robert John Gorham was a Pashtun. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:54, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
- That makes a lot of sense. Pashto grammar#Prepositions has
