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Category: Shaikh clans. 1 language. ... Shaikhs in North India; Shaikhzada; Sindhi Shaikh This page was last edited on 26 October 2024, at 18:24 (UTC). ...
Many Shaikhs from North India are descended from Arabs, and adopted 'Shaikh' as their last name through marriage or their job. In Frontier Regions , Punjab of Pakistan, or Kashmir , the title shaikh was given to those who had descended from upper caste natives such as the Brahmins , Kayasthas and Rajputs .
The following are some of the tribal names in Pakistan. Naming system Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention , cultural names and ancestral names.
In the Punjab province of British India, comprising Punjab and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in modern Pakistan as well Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and some parts of Himachal Pradesh in modern India, in 1921, 70.7% of the Punjabi Rajputs were Muslims while 27.7% were Hindus, with the highest percentage of Rajputs found in Rawalpindi ...
Mughal clans of Pakistan (1 C, 5 P) S. Samma tribes (2 C, 44 P) Shaikh clans (19 P) Sindhi tribes in India (2 C, 20 P) T. Talpur dynasty (1 C, 21 P)
Shaikh clans (19 P) T. Tribes of Rawalpindi District (4 P) Pages in category "Punjabi tribes" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total.
Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.
Shaikh or Sheikh (Sindhi: شيخ), is a Sindhi tribe or caste. The "Shaikh" word is an Arabic term meaning elder of a tribe, lord, revered old man, or Islamic scholar . The Shaikhs of Sindh are one of the major tribe of the Sindhi Muslims ethnic group; they are converted from Sindhi Hindu Lohana / Brahmin tribes.