Re: Islamic Republic of India
he is wrong about word “stan” “sthan” it is not a arabic word
It’s a linguistic question too, belonging to the field of “onomastics,” the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names. The suffix -stan means ‘place, land, country, homeland’ and is ultimately related to ancient Sanskrit sthana, meaning ‘place’. (As a sidebar, this Sanskrit noun developed into the modern Hindi word thana, also meaning ‘place’, and was borrowed into English, referring to a police station in India or an Indian military base during the British occupation.) The suffix -stan is related to English stand, Latin stare, and Greek histánai