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Bakshi is a historical title used in India, deriving from Persian word for "paymaster", and originating as the title of an official responsible for distributing wages in Muslim armies. [ 1 ] Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad , Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1953 to 1964.
Baksheesh comes from the Persian word بخشش (bakhshesh), which originated from the Middle Persian language. [2]The word had also moved to other cultures and countries. In the Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Indian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Turkish languages, bakshish or бакшиш means "tip" in the conventional western sense.
Bakhshi (Persian: بخشی; adjective form of Bakhsh – a type of administrative division of Iran – which in itself is a hyponym of the Persian noun بخش (baxš), meaning part, portion; section; district; fortune) is a Dari, [1] Persian, [1] [2] Pakistani [1] and Indian [1] [2] surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bakshi Banu Begum (1540-1596), Mughal princess and was the second daughter of Emperor Humayun Bakht-un-Nissa Begum ( c. 1547 – 1608), a Mughal princess, the daughter of Mughal emperor Humayun Wali Nimat Mariam-uz-Zamani Begum ( c. 1542 – 1623), Empress Consort, chief and favorite wife of Mughal Emperor Akbar (1562–1605) and Queen Mother ...
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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
She saw that many of the athletes from Serbia — which neighbors her family's country of origin, Croatia — had last names that also end in "-ic," but their names were spelled with an accent ...
Origin [ edit ] Historically, bakshy referred to two profession: scribes literate in the Uyghur alphabet and shamans who doubled as musicians, given the role of music in healing and in celebrating weddings, births, and other important life events.