Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

Read a card where a lady’s name was written as Xaenab’. At first instance, I couldn’t get it. About the name and about the nationality of the person.

Saw another name in Image forum ( @Tahurra 's thread) Yasmin Mogahed… Now this Mogahed might be Mujahid..

So have you observed this trend? Whats behind it? share some instances.

Re: Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

Miyan ji duniya k saath saath chalna hai to yeh sab to karna hi parta hai

Jaise Daud ki jaga Dawood

Hans ki chaal waala hisaab hai

Re: Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

aap ka naam Aaceph to nahin?

Re: Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

Jis tarah Aap ka naam Imaraan Moman nahi

Usi tarah Humra bhi nahi:D

Re: Why ‘Xaenab’ and not ‘Zainab’?

My name can’t be changed like that. :snooty: all letters in my name got no substitute :naraz:

Re: Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

The same way it's Xerox and not zerox

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People here try to spell their name more english ... There was a chick her name was Mishal but she kept calling herself Michelle

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But Zainab is not a Latin name

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In our collage we called asif as As-If :D

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people just try too hard to make it like english or whatever.

Re: Why ‘Xaenab’ and not ‘Zainab’?

and we called our teacher Sir Faisal as Surf Excel on his face.He never knew what we were calling him :rotfl:

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unke ghar TV nahin tha ya wo ‘Ariel’ use karte the?

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Lol!! Surfexcel is better than As-If for sure :slight_smile:

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@Anwer_Pasha

uncle have you ever written your as Enver?

Text-speak.
My cousins daughter is named Xara...not Zara. Idk why.

Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

Yeahhh. A few of my friends whose name starts with Z, change it to X! Like Zain to Xain, Zara to Xara. I never got why they do it. It's cool, perhaps.

Re: Why 'Xaenab' and not 'Zainab'?

I think it is related to pronounciation, ham urdu k hesab se spell karty hain or wo log pronounciation k hesab se, jaise we write mujahid as "j" is for jeem,magar wo log just listening k through mogahed likhty hainy, its just ab opinion, kuch log fasion k tor per bhi replace z with x.

Re: Why ‘Xaenab’ and not ‘Zainab’?

First letter has substitute…

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Don;t mention that infamous bollywood lucha

Re: Why ‘Xaenab’ and not ‘Zainab’?

:kiss: