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The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from alere "to nourish". [1] The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former ...
Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: campus, bonus, and anus; while others regularly use the Latin forms: radius (radii) and alumnus (alumni). Still others may use either: corpus (corpora or corpuses), formula (formulae in technical contexts, formulas ...
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The dictionary, however, and most colleges, which gladly classify all attendees as alumni for fundraising and other purposes, disagree with you. The word "alumnus" has a clear meaning, and it is not what you wish it to be. The category which excludes those who did not graduate would be "graduates by university or college".
Besides them there are more than 6000 boys and girls in various educational institutions of the Jamia. The alumni are called ‘Misbahi’ according to its old name ‘Misbahul Uloom’. [3] Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian Civil Service Exam in 2019. [6] [7]
Urdu poet (better known as Majaz Lakhnawi) [7] Azarmi Dukht Safavi: master of Persian literature, established Persian Language Research Center of the Aligarh University [8] [9] Bashir Badr: BA, MA, PhD Urdu poet [10] Basharat Peer: journalist, author, and political commentator [11] Deeba Salim Irfan: author and poet Fani Badayuni: LLB Urdu poet ...
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Malik Ram – Urdu, Arabic, and Persian scholar and writer; Ismat Beg – Mathematician and academician. Known for his work in fixed point theory and multicriteria decision-making problems. Arfa Sayeda Zehra – Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert; Asghar Zaidi – Former Vice Chancellor of Government College University (GCU)