Pashtunwali
Proper noun
Meaning
Pashtunwali
The tribal code of conduct followed by the Pashtun people.
Examples
For example, many leaders of non-Pashtun ethnic groups in Afghanistan practice Pashtunwali to some degree and are fluent in Pashto language.
'Doing Pashto: Pashtunwali as the ideal of honourable behaviour and tribal life among the Pashtuns' - this new thematic report by Lutz Rzehak provides an overview about the way of life of the Pashtuns, often called Pashtunwali.
Pashtunwali, the unwritten code that guides Pashtuns, embraces concepts such as melmastia (hospitality), nanawatay (asking for asylum), nang (honor), meraana (courage), and nyao aw badal (justice and revenge).
No foreign language can capture the various concepts native to Afghanistan as intricately as native speakers’ own languages do, for example in the case of Pashtunwali customs.
Pashtun culture is mostly based on Pashtunwali and the usage of the Pashto language.
Roy, Olivier, Globalized Islam, Columbia University Press, 2004, p. 239. They also frequently used the pre-Islamic Pashtun tribal code, Pashtunwali in deciding certain social matters, which often contradicted the Qu'ran.