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An Afghan personal name consists of a given name (Dari: نام, Pashto: نوم) and sometimes a surname at the end. Personal names are generally not divided into first and family names; a single name is recognized as a full personal name, and the addition of further components – such as additional given names, regional, or ethnic family/clan names or patronymics – is often a matter of ...
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[64] [60] While speakers of Pashto in the country number only 21,677 as of 2011, estimates of the ethnic or ancestral Pashtun population in India range from 3,200,000 [5] [6] [65] to 11,482,000, [66] to as high as double their population in Afghanistan (approximately 30 million).
Category: Pashtun names. ... Pashto-language surnames (56 P) This page was last edited on 15 January 2023, at 08:22 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Plarina is related to the Bactrian term plār, which derives from Old Iranian piðar (in Bactrian and Pashto, Old Iranian /ð/ usually yields /l/), and is related to Sanskrit pitar and English "father". The plural form of plār is plārina. A plārina is considered only when the 7th generation is born, meaning the father of multiple families ...
The Pashtun people are classified as an Iranian ethnic group.They are indigenous to southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. [1] [2] Although a number of theories attempting to explain their ethnogenesis have been put forward, the exact origin of the Pashtun tribes is acknowledged as being obscure. [3]
A. Abdulla Khan Jadran Yawan; Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai; Najib ad-Dawlah; Afghan (tribal chief) Azad Khan Afghan; Ajab Khan Afridi; Darya Khan Afridi; Javed Afridi
In Pashto phonology, as /f/ is found only in loanwords and tends to be replaced by /p/, [3] the name is usually pronounced as Yūsəpzay or Īsəpzay.The name literally means "descendant of Yusuf" in Pashto; Yūsuf (يوسف) is an Arabic and Aramaic masculine given name meaning "(God) shall add."