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Male names are normally compounded, for example Ahmad Khan, in which two words make up one single given name. [2]Males often have Islamic names derived from Arabic that are popular throughout the Muslim world, whereas females more commonly have names from local Pashto or Persian origin, which itself can have derivations from various Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit.
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 ...
However, the similarity of names can also be traced to the presence of Arabic through Islam. [175] This theory of Pashtuns Jewish origin has been largely denied and is said that Its biblical claims are anecdotal, its historical documentation is inconsistent, its geographic claims are incoherent, and its linguistic assertions are implausible. [176]
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
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Abdul Ghani Khan (Pakistan) – Pashto poet, writer, philosopher, and artist [6] Ameer Hamza Shinwari (Pakistan/Afghanistan) - Pashto Poet, Writer ,philosopher etc; Sardar Ali Takkar (Pakistan/Afghanistan) – popular sufist Pashto singer. Rahim Shah (Pakistan) – popular Pashto and Urdu singer; Khyal Muhammad (Pakistan) – prominent Pashto ...
Meena or Mina (Pashto: مینه) means "love" in Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and the Pashtun Diaspora of Pakistan, [5] which is the feminine noun for the word "lover" – the masculine form is "māyan میين". Although no source of it as used in a name except for the Persian "Mina". See Meena (disambiguation)
In Arabic, the name comes from the same root as the word emir. In Urdu (Urdu: عامر) the name has the same meaning as the original in Arabic, meaning ‘prince”. In Pashto (Pashto: امير) the name comes to mean ‘leader’ or ‘boss’. In Hebrew, when spelt אמיר the name means crown (treetop).