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  2. Tajik (word) - Wikipedia

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    The name "Tajik" (Persian: تاجیک, romanized: tājīk, Tajik: тоҷик, romanized: tojik) did not always have the same meaning and did always serve as the self-designation of the present-day Tajik people. It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly ...

  3. Early history of Tajikistan - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the name Tajik has been embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia. The explanation most favored by scholars is that the word evolved from the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) Arab tribe. [1]

  4. Tajiks - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon, dropped the Russian suffix "-ov" from his surname and directed others to adopt Tajik names when registering births. [100] According to a government announcement in October 2009, approximately 4,000 Tajik nationals have dropped "ov" and "ev" from their surnames since the start of the year.

  5. Lists of Hindi films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, based in Mumbai, ordered by year and decade of release. Although "Bollywood" films are generally listed under the Hindi language, most are in Hindustani and in Hindi with partial Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Urdu and occasionally other languages ...

  6. Faryal - Wikipedia

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    It is a compound of the Persian words فر (far) meaning 'splendour' and یال (yâl) meaning 'neck'. The overall meaning of this name is thus 'the one with a beautiful neck, good neck'. Women with this given name include: Ferial Qadin (died 1902), consort to Ismail Pasha; Farial of Egypt (1938–2009), princess

  7. Cinema of Tajikistan - Wikipedia

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    In 1934, leading Russian director Lev Kuleshov was sent to Tajikistan to improve the quality of local movies. He worked for two years at a movie based on the novel Dokhunda by Tajik national poet Sadriddin Ayni, but the project was regarded with suspicion by the authorities as possibly exciting Tajik nationalism, and stopped. No footage survives.

  8. List of Asian films - Wikipedia

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    List of Bollywood films. List of highest-grossing Bollywood films; List of highest-grossing Indian films worldwide; List of Malayalam films; List of Kannada-language films; List of Oriya films; List of Tamil-language films; List of Telugu-language films; Marathi films

  9. Parsi theatre - Wikipedia

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    According to screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar, Urdu Parsi theatre's ghazal, thumri and kajri traditions were the basis for Bollywood's filmi-ghazal, thumri and kajri styles of music. [14] Parsi theatre was also popular in South-East Asia, where it was known as Wyang Parsi and often imitated. [15]