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An Afghan personal name consists of a given name (Dari: نام, Pashto: نوم) and sometimes a surname at the end. Personal names are generally not divided into first and family names; a single name is recognized as a full personal name, and the addition of further components – such as additional given names, regional, or ethnic family/clan names or patronymics – is often a matter of ...
Khushal Khan Khattak – Pashto poet, warrior, and tribal chief from the 17th century [9] Rahman Baba – Pashto poet and Sufi saint; Abaseen Yousafzai – Pashto poet known for his modernist poetry; Hafiz Alpuri – Pashto Poet; Khatir Afridi – Pashto poet and writer; Malala Yousafzai – Pashto writer, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Zai (Pashto: زی zay 'son of'; plural: زي zī) is a suffix denoting a member of certain Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clan names are formed with the word khel . Distribution
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.
Khel (Pashto: خیل) are sub-tribes of Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. [1] [2] The title of the tribe ends in Zai and its sub-tribe name ends in Khel. Khel is also a common final element in the names of villages in Afghanistan and in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan, such as Darra Adam Khel. Some of the clans of Pashtun tribes ...
The child was named by the saint as ghal-zōy (غلزوی), Pashto for "thief's son," from whom the Ghilzai derived their name. The 1595 Mughal account Ain-i-Akbari , written by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak , also gave a similar account about Ghiljis' origin.