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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.
It is the most comprehensive, detailed and thick dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [ citation needed ] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu ...
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.
Her first language was Urdu, and she was also fluent in Arabic, Persian and Bhojpuri languages. [4]: 118 & 123 She was the first woman poet to author a diwan, a complete collection of Urdu ghazals. The collection, named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa, comprises 39 ghazals, and each ghazal consists of 5 couplets. The collection was published in 1824 after her ...
Many writers have different opinions about the name of Jhelum. One suggestion is that in ancient days Jhelumabad was known as Jalham. The word Jhelum is reportedly derived from the words Jal (pure water) and Ham (snow). The name thus refers to the waters of a river (flowing besides the city) which have their origins in the snow-capped Himalayas ...
The names are mostly in Telugu and Urdu, the widely spoken languages of the city. [3] List of localities, neighborhoods and streets of Hyderabad and their etymology include: A. C. Guards - stands for African Cavalry Guards; named after the African personal bodyguards of the Nizam ; It is the area where they used to reside.
An elaborate Celtic scabbard of 1-200 AD, in two colours of bronze 1916 Leather Scabbard for a saddle lever-action rifle of Jack Peters, a ranch hand that worked on the Grant-Kohrs Ranch, in Powell County, Montana. A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar edged weapons.