Crossword-Solution: PASHTU 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

But such a dust-storm ordinarily swept over the plain southwards: Ahmed had never seen one approach from the west; and after a long and steady gaze at the speck, which grew slowly in size, he suddenly dropped his hand, uttered an exclamation in the Pashtu tongue, and turning his back began to retrace his course, at a speed vastly greater than that at which he had formerly been moving, towards his distant village.

Well," he went on in Pashtu, "what will you want?" "Clothes, shawls, and a camel, sahib." "And where will you get them?" "In the bazar at Karnal, sahib." "Steal them, eh?" "Buy them with the hazur's rupees," said Ahmed, with a smile.

Soon after my arrival in India I wanted a body-servant who knew no language but Pashtu, in order that I might the more easily gain proficiency in that language.

His Muhammadan patron laughed at his scruples, and quoted the Pashtu proverb, "The Feringis in their religion, and we in ours," saying: "So long as you say your prayers regularly, and read the Quran, and keep the fast, and do not eat their food, lest by any chance there should be swine's flesh in it, you have no reason to fear." For some time Jahan Khan served me well, but was evidently chary of too dangerous an intimacy.

When the alphabet had been mastered, the munshi was looking about for some simple book for reading-lessons, and he happened to take up a Pashtu Gospel which had been given him and laid aside, and from this Jahan Khan got his first reading-lessons.