Relating to or characteristic of the Abdali Pashtun, a major tribal group from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
From 'Abdal,' the tribal name of Pashtun peoples; the adjectival suffix '-i' creates the descriptive form used in South Asian contexts.
The Abdali consolidated Afghanistan in the 18th century and are now called Durrani, but their original name lives on in English scholarly texts—a linguistic fossil of geopolitical reorganization.
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