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There are several titles used in Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Syed, Shaikh, Khawaja, Pasha, Malik etc. are common. Less commonly, the tribal name itself is appended to the person's given names. For females, tribal names or titles rarely figure in the person's full name although it has become more common due to Western influence.
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.
He obtained a Master's degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. [1] [3] His father, Ehtashamuddin Haqqee, wrote short stories, a study of Persian poet Hafez Shirazi, Tarjuman-ul-Ghaib, a translation of Diwan-i-Hafez in verse and assisted Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq in compiling his Lughat-i-Kabeer (Grand Urdu Dictionary ...
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Babar (Urdu: بابر ), also variously spelled as Baber, [1] Babur, [2] and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan. [3] It is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr ( Persian : ببر ), meaning "tiger". [ 1 ]
Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]
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The term Pakistani is used hereby to refer to the names and words that are used in Pakistan, regardless of their origin. All Pakistani languages are written in Perso-Arabic script in Pakistan (some neighbouring countries might use different scripts for some Pakistani languages).