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=== Classical vocabulary === There is a lot of old vocabulary that has been replaced by borrowings e.g. {{lang|ps|پلاز|nocat=y}} {{lang|ps-Latn|plâz|nocat=y}}<ref>{{Cite web | title=پلاز - Pashto English Dictionary 2015 [Ahmad Wali Achakzai] | url=https://qamosona.com/G3/index.php/term/,6f57b19b61545da79b9ea5acae615c.xhtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625102459/https://qamosona.com/G3/index.php/term/,6f57b19b61545da79b9ea5acae615c.xhtml | access-date=2025-03-21 | archive-date=2021-06-25}}</ref> 'throne' with {{lang|fa|تخت}} {{lang|fa-Latn|takht}}, from Persian.<ref>Pata Khanaza by M. Hotak (1762–1763), translated by K. Habibi page 21, [http://alamahabibi.net/English_Articles/E_Pata_Khazana__Pashto-Eng.pdf Alama Habibi Portal.]</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Habibi |first=Khushal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsP9T48RnUEC&q=pata+khazana&pg=PA188 |title=The Hidden Treasure: A Biography of Pas̲htoon Poets |date=1997 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn=978-0-7618-0265-5 |pages=225 |language=en }}</ref> Or the word {{lang|ps|يګانګي|nocat=y}} {{lang|ps-Latn|yagānagí|nocat=y}}<ref>{{Cite web | title=يګانګي - Pashto English Dictionary 2015 [Ahmad Wali Achakzai] | url=https://qamosona.com/G3/index.php/term/,6f57b19b61545da79b9ea5aeac5d53a6.xhtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625095303/https://qamosona.com/G3/index.php/term/,6f57b19b61545da79b9ea5aeac5d53a6.xhtml | access-date=2025-03-21 | archive-date=2021-06-25}}</ref> meaning 'uniqueness' used by [[Pir Roshan|Pir Roshan Bayazid]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Faqir |first=Faqir Muhammad |year=2014 |title=The Neologism of Bayazid Ansari |url=http://khyber.org/pacademy/journal/pdf/2014-Pasht-43-Faqir-TheNeologi.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014062439/http://khyber.org/pacademy/journal/pdf/2014-Pasht-43-Faqir-TheNeologi.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=14 October 2021 |journal=Pashto |volume=43 |issue=647–648 |pages=147–165 }}</ref> Such classical vocabulary is being reintroduced to modern Pashto.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pashtoon |first=Zeeya A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YKACSQAACAAJ&q=zeeya+a+pashto+dictionary |title=Pashto–English Dictionary |date=2009 |publisher=Dunwoody Press |isbn=978-1-931546-70-6 |pages=144 |language=en }}</ref> Some words also survive in dialects like {{lang|ps|ناوې پلاز}} 'the bride-room'.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Momand |first=Qalandar |title=Daryab Pashto Glossary |url=https://qamosona.com/G/index.php/term/,63b05a9daea7a56f69b05aae5cada65c.xhtml}}</ref> Example from [[Khayr al-Bayān]]:<ref name=":0" /> : {{nq|{{lang|ps|2= ... بې يګانګئ بې قرارئ وي او په بدخوئ کښې وي په ګناهان }}}} : '''Transliteration:''' {{lang|ps-Latn|... '''be-yagānagə́i''', be-kararə́i wi aw pə badxwə́i kx̌e wi pə gunāhā́n|italic=no}} : '''Translation:''' "... without '''singularity/uniqueness''', without calmness and by bad-attitude are on sin ."
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