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He or Ho is the romanized transliteration of several Chinese family names. According to a 2012 survey, 14 million people had Hé listed as their surname, making it the 17th most common surname in Mainland China, [1] a spot it retained in 2019. [2] Hé was listed as the 21st most common surname in the Hundred Family Surnames.
Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies.
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It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel. The Ali surname is especially common in Arab countries and the rest of the Muslim world. [1] Ali is the most common last name in Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Kuwait and Libya. [2]
Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...
In Persian, Turkish, and Urdu usage, it is always pronounced and written as nisbat. In Arabic usage, that pronunciation occurs when the word is uttered in its construct state only. The practice has been adopted in Iranian names and South Asian Muslim names. The nisba to a tribe, profession or a town is the most common form of surname in Arabic.
From Arabic, via Persian, this word came into Urdu as raees, which means a person belonging to the aristocracy of noble distinction. [ 3 ] In Urdu , the word Rais is also used similarly to the English term " old money ," as the opposite or antonym of nouveau riche , a person who has accumulated considerable wealth within his or her generation.