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Kabul.

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

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Meaning & usage

name/ˈkɑːbəl//ˈkaːˌbʊl/
  1. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

  2. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan. The Afghanistan government.

    metonymically
  3. A province of Afghanistan.

  4. A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), of unknown origin. See the Persian entry for more.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.