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Surnames of Urdu language origin. Pages in category "Urdu-language surnames" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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.
Urdu-language surnames (49 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Pakistani origin" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Urdu-language surnames (49 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Indian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,074 total.
Paracha (Urdu: پَراچہ, Hindi: पराचा) or Piracha (Urdu: پِراچہ, Hindi: पिराचा), also known as Peracha, Piracha,Pracha, and Paracha, is a family name in India and Pakistan, most common in the Punjab region. [1]
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
The word "Bhat" (Sanskrit: भट्ट, IAST: Bhaṭṭa) means "scholar" in Sanskrit.[2] [3] While the original shortened rendition of "Bhatta" was "Bhat" or "Bhatt," [4] many of the Kashmiri Brahmin migrants to the Punjab region started spelling their surname as "Butt", which is the transliteration of the name when written using the Urdu/Persian alphabet (as opposed to Bhat when using the ...
After marriage, the full name would be her most called name appended with her husband's most called name. In official documents, a person's identity is established by listing both the person's full name (however they may write it), and their father's. For married women, the husband's name might be used instead of the father's.