# Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˌkaɪbər pəkˈtuːŋkwə/

## Definitions
1. A province in northwestern Pakistan. Capital: Peshawar.

## Etymology
Transliteration of Urdu خیبر پختونخوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā), from خیبر (xaibar, “Khyber”) + پختونخوا (paxtūnxvā, “Land of the Pashtun”), literally “the Khyber side of the Pashtun heartland”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/khyber-pakhtunkhwa