English
Porkistan
Blend of pork + Pakistan.
Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- ‘colored’
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Proto-Italic *porkos ‘pig’
Latin porcus ‘domestic hog, pig’
Old French porc ‘swine, hog, pig’
Middle English pork ‘pork (pig meat)’
English pork
Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
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Urdu پَاک ‘clean, pure’
Classical Persian ـِسْتَان
Urdu ـِسْتان ‘-istan, -stan’
Urdu پاکستان
English Pakistan
The story
Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, Pakistan’s predominant and official religion.
Today it means
name Derogatory name for Pakistan: a country in South Asia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Porkistan