Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2021 August 31

= August 31 =

"Da" Afghanistan Bank
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,, but wikt:د says (under "Etymology 2")

Preposition د • (dë) of --ColinFine (talk) 15:37, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * That makes a lot of sense. Pashto grammar 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
 * --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)
 * 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)