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Yea i like Deepika,Neha,Priya,Arundhati,Krithi,
You know almost 90% of times the heroe spl.with the khans ,named are Rahukl,DDLJ,KKHH,etc. I think there must be laced with androgen aroma name to attract feline smell senses!!I have noticed this for long time this interesting observation & you just confirmed it
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Bik Gaya Jo Woh Kharidar Nahi Ho Sakta
Cool Down: Some of the names closest to muslim names we use are following and they are very common too.
- Aman( and its variations...amanpreet, amandeep, Amanbir etc)
- Jasmine
- Iqbal
- Sameer
- Mehar
- Ghulab
hmm can't remember any others on the top of my head.
channmahi,
do sardars have names like
female names
is bibi word is used at the end of a woman's name. for example,
Cool down: that is itersting now that you mentioned I totally forgot some names...particularly 2 that two of my nephews have.
Others that sound muslim ae
Others that you mentioned, No.
Bibi is used for respect, particularly for historic figures. Like Guru Nanak's sister named Nanaki and now is known as Bibi Nanaki.
Bibi is also used for 'mother'. e.g. my mother and uncles used call their mother Bibi. Some have modified it to Biji(short for Bibi Ji).
Bibi and Baba are vrey commoned used words for us.
chann mahi: - Sartaj(yes with j not z:))
cool down: we also use j (sartaj not sartaz)
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IMO, indian names are exquisite! most of them carry very interesting meanings, usually a description of a positive quality, running parallel to a figure of speech alluding to a God(ess) or object. these names may sound strange to someone who isnt familiar with indian culture and language. i am sure you would have found "jane" or "peter" quite funny and asexual if you werent so familiar with them. (what the hell does "jane" mean anyway? "peter" means stone in hebrew. funny?).
most pakistanis ancestors would have carried similar names until 800 years back. one thing that beats me is, how come persians retained their native persian language names (which they share with zoroastrians and many persian jews, and are very similar in meaning to indian names) despite converting to islam; while in the indian subcontinent, almost all muslims choose to go for arabic or persian names, brushing aside their native names. why? is it such a necessity to obliterate one's identity so ruthlessly?
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Well I wont say anything about Indian names. Indians like them....good for them.
Coming to Pakistani ancestors, many Pakistanis still carry their last names. And trust me Pakistani last names even 1000 years ago were very different from indian names. GO to interior of sindh or punjab or kashmiror balochistan and you'll find cultural names.
Secondly, Iranian names are common only in non ara bic speaking countries. One of the reasons is that when the Muslims caliphacy moved from Damascus to Baghdad under the Abbasids caliphs, that was the orietalization of Islam, and Iranian cultural influence became quite apparent in art, literature etc... and many arabs princes married persian women. Farsi became one of the languages of prestige and advancement. It is because of this many muslims have both Iranian and Arabic names. When mughals who were turkic formed an empire they did not speak or propagate Turkish, they adopted persian language and persian culture and later on it was Urdu.
Most Iranians even today have arabic first names and almost every afghan has arabic first name. I dont see egyptians keeping names of ramses, tutankhamon....do you?
same goes for north africans and Turks. Arabs dont even keep pre Islamic arabic names most of the times. This is a cultural amalgamation that youve seen.
SO no one is obiliterating anyone's identity. Sorry to disappoint you. Islam does not reqiuire change of any names. And Id like to know what Iranian and Indian names are similar?
queer, I believe Peter is of Latin origin, not hebrew.
Queer belongs to blind student followers of Nai Pal IRONICALLY ,whose anglicised prefered name is Nai Paul has written two extensive books (among believers & somthing somthing ..not worth remembering)charging that islam purposely obliterated the past of muslims .As if i am so fool not to know know that before 7th century there was no ISLAm
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or that muslims dropped from sky in india suddenly 1000yrs ago in India as made in jannat muslims modelT
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WEe all know queer that we might have been hindu ,or might have been fathered by in coming muslims through the khyber pass or any combination between the two by inter marriages or conversion god alone knows.Do you know Queer what your ancestors were 7000 yrs ago …if not apes.
Chin-o-arab hamaara
hindostaan hamaara
muslim hai hum, vatan hai saara jahaan hamaara
I think strange is in the eye of the beholder. What is the norm in one culture, would seem strange in another.
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Brenda McLennan
bcsm57: thats the answer I was looking for!
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It just takes time to get used to other cultures.
if you look at indonesian names lot of them sound like indian
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/chiefs81.html
Darling, if you have the answer why subjectively decide that people of one culture have strange names? To start a cursing match at gupshup? I had thought that you had more sense than to post such a moronic thing.
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NadiaNotty-
Duh! did you read why I asked this? cos I got confused about an indian name. Before you start making unnecessary assumption, you should read the replies here, no one cursed anyone! people are more civilised as you may make out of them and not every query has to make sense to everyone.
well I always had problem when sumitting my project reports during MSc, one of lecturer was indian with name of
vijay gurabharun
the last one always marked with spelling correction by him. and its still not right
Shak killS: he he I have these very nice and friendly neighbors, they are south indian christians and have an incredible loooong family name, which I can never EVER prounce it, one day I will ask her to tell me the right prounication.
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names or words sound strange because you are not used to them. I found some names strange at first too, korean names, hindu names, even hungarian names. But just know that our names and our language may sound just as strange to others.
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** Duh! did you read why I asked this? cos I got confused about an indian name. Before you start making unnecessary assumption, you should read the replies here, no one cursed anyone! people are more civilised as you may make out of them and not every query has to make sense to everyone.
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Sadi-
Calm down chickie...
I'm really surprised that you don't get my point or of that of many of the replies. Yes, I read your post and most of the replies. Darling, did I say anyone cursed? I sugesst that you go and read my reply.
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** Duh! did you read why I asked this? cos I got confused about an indian name.
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Let me simplify your task for you. It is a ridiculous statement to make that over 1 billion people (I'm counting ex-pats as well) of a certain nationality & descent have strange names based on your encounter with one name or even with 500,000 names. Since "strange" is a subjective term. Sweetie pie, Austrian names are not strange to you because you are used to them but they will sound strange to me or anyone not familiar with such names.
I grew up without any exposure to South Asians or muslims and a lot of Pakistani, Indian, and muslim names sound strange to me, and I can't figure out the gender of the people either but I wouldn't arbitarly decide that these people have strange names. I am able to recognize that I was exposed to only the American culture so what's normal to me is what I've been exposed to.
That's the point made by several members in your thread.
As Fraudz put it quite clear and nicely and I myself said before that it does take time to get used to other cultures and at first names do sound strange or unusual maybe but with time it gets normal so for me this topic is done and over with!
Muni no more comments, I do understand the message that you are trying to deliver, maybe it will work better if you please refain from calling names(oh yeah),plus I don't see any reason why you are repeating yourself, unless of course you are trying to prove that I am racist and biased over indians and their culture, well then good luck.
i like some indian names such as pallavi, jyoti, urmila
but andhra i cant understand it either means inside as in andhra pradesh or ‘andhra’ as in intestines - (pak punjabi)