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No one in Pakistan knows what Aswad means tell them its right out of quran and they will make aswad into a pir.
What about bebsi?
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Milton seemed to have vision. 
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khubz= tandoor chay paki hoi vaddi te patli jai roti
kamachi= tandoor chay paki hui choti te moti jai roti
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khubz=bread not breakfast
and in Pakistan its not just arabic its the craze to have a "unique" names.
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^^ Oiy Hindko speaker..... We talkin' arabic not Hazara waal.
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Well here are some more
al-hatif is my favorite
qism al-Shurtah second favorite applies to both genders
Maktab al-Bareed Male/Mail only
and then there is
al-funduq
al-maktaba
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you wanna guess al-hatif??
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nope i am not sure what hatif is.. help me
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its hat off in northern english
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al-hatif =telephone
http://www.sudairy.com/arabic/phrases.html
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you cant call your kid telephone
call thenm pushtu names
spongmai...moon
khushaak.... firewood
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go figure
.... according to my husband, in his area Zainab is a very common name for Muslim girls... if a Muslim is named Zainab... doesn't that make it a Muslim name?? Though to be doomed to a life with a name like that, being called Zainy, etc... sigh
... poor woman
..just musing is all......
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your husband is from the US, i didnt think it was a regular name there.
as for the zainy business
leave the poor woman alone...its not nice being shot deaded and then being called Zainy
it adds insult to injury!
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^^ Minah as I mentioned earlier, there is no muslim name, they are arabic names. Just because Michael and John is listed in bible doesnt make it a christian name.
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there is no "al-hatif" in the list
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GP , yes it does
anyway whats your name...spotty people are called Gavril