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It is used as a name and title for Jesus in the Quran, and is also the common word used by Arab Christians for Christ. [1] Masih is also a common Christian surname in India and Pakistan (Hindi: मसीह, Urdu: مسیح). [2] Some people in India and Pakistan have adopted the surname Masih after their conversion to Christianity. [3]
Hindi has drawn increasing focus as an academic subject. [8] There is a growing trend of Hindi experts and the availability of texts in Pakistan. [8] Many Hindi instructors migrated from India, or were educated at Indian universities. [5] The Department of Hindi at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) in Islamabad was
Jai Masih Ki (Hindi: जय मसीह की, Urdu: جے مسیح کی, translation: Victory to Christ or Praise the Messiah) [1] or Jai Yeshu Ki (Hindi: जय येशु की, Urdu: جے یسوع کی, translation: Victory to Jesus or Praise Jesus) are Hindi-Urdu greeting phrases used by Christians in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.
In Pakistan it was published in the Nastaʿlīq script only. The Revised Version was adapted for Catholics, with changes in vocabulary and the addition of deuterocanonical books. It was published by the Pakistan Bible Society for the Catholic Bible Commission Pakistan in 1958 under the title Kalam-e-Muqaddas. The New Testament was revised in 2010.
The English name Jesus, from Greek Iēsous, is a rendering of Joshua (Hebrew Yehoshua, later Yeshua), and was not uncommon in Judea at the time of the birth of Jesus. Folk etymology linked the names Yehoshua and Yeshua to the verb meaning 'save' and the noun 'salvation'. [29] The Gospel of Matthew tells of an angel that appeared to Joseph ...
[2] [3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [4] [5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used for inter-communication between different ethnic groups.
Today, the Punjabi Christians reside in the Punjab region, which includes the countries of Pakistan and India; they are almost equally divided between Catholicism and Protestantism. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] With an estimated three million living in the Pakistani province of Punjab , they account for 75 percent of the country's total Christian population .
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.