Pashto dictionary Version 1.0, released November 1998 Penzl's glossary is copyright 1955 American Council of Learned Societies. All rights reserved. Used by permission. This dictionary contains all of the words from the glossary of Herbert Penzl's A grammar of Pashto: A descriptive study of the dialect of Kandahar, Afghanistan (Washington, DC: American Council of Learned Societies, 1955), pp.