Asian vs Afghan

Afghan vs Asian

Asian and Afghan both are nouns.

Asian and Afghan both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Afghan	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Afghan is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Afghan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Afghan: a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Afghan (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to the Near East
	an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan
	a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan

Asian (adjective)	Afghan (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people

Difference between Asian and Afghan

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