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  2. Category:Urdu-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Surnames of Urdu language origin. Pages in category "Urdu-language surnames" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  3. Pakistani name - Wikipedia

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    If the person has more than one given name, one of them is chosen as the person's most called name, by which he is called or referred to informally. Generally for Muslim males, Muhammad, the name of the prophet of Islam, is chosen to be the person's first given name, if he has more than one. Because of the prevalence of this practice, this name ...

  4. He (surname) - Wikipedia

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    He or Ho is the romanized transliteration of several Chinese family names. According to a 2012 survey, 14 million people had Hé listed as their surname, making it the 17th most common surname in Mainland China, [1] a spot it retained in 2019. [2] Hé was listed as the 21st most common surname in the Hundred Family Surnames.

  5. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Etymology of Lahore - Wikipedia

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    In the Deshwa Bhaga, Lahore is called Lavpor, which at once points to its origin from Lav, the son of Rama whose Lava temple built during the Sikh era in the 19th century, [15] is located empty inside the Lahore Fort, while in the ancient annals of Rajputana the name given is Loh Kot, meaning “the fort of Loh,” which, again, has reference ...

  7. Oikonyms in Western and South Asia - Wikipedia

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    From Arabic khāṣṣ, meaning "selected" or "private". In India, it was historically used to refer to a place managed directly by the government or by a jagirdar, without any intermediaries. For example, Jamal Mohd Siddiqi identifies six places with "khās" in their name in present-day Aligarh district, India. All six were founded by Rajput ...

  8. Shah (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Shah is a popular surname in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. [1]Shah (/ ʃ ɑː /; Persian: شاه, romanized: Šāh, pronounced , 'king') is a title given to the emperors, kings, princes and lords of Iran (historically known as Persia in the West). [2]

  9. Gol he - Wikipedia

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    Gol he written thrice (showing the non-isolated forms) Gol he and do-cas͟hmī he in comparison (word-final and word-medial positions) Gol he, also called choṭī he, is one of the two variants of the Arabic letter he/hāʾ (ه) that are in use in the Urdu alphabet, the other variant being the do-cas͟hmī he (), also called hā-'e-mak͟hlūt. [1]