etymology of your place of origin

[Michin Khel]

mention it if you know about it

lakki marwat
There are two different stories about
the "Lakki" part of the District's name. One story says that long ago a battle
was fought between the Marwat tribe
and Wazir and Marwat tribe started to
unite a army. The army was huge
enough that people say almost 1 Lac
Marwat. Then the word "Lac" become Lakki therefore, it is called Lakki
Marwat. Another story links this name to one
Lakki Ram or Lukko Ram, a Hindu
trader who is considered to be the
original founder of this town. Yet
another source claims that the town
was initially known as Ihsan Pur. The second part of the District’s name comes from the warrior tribe of Marwat who has inhabited the entire area for several centuries. " Lakki derives from Pali language, which is equivalent of Laksmi,
goddess of beauty and fortune. The
last part of its name is emarta'watta
means source of elixir. By the revages
of time it changed to Marwat. It is a metaphor for the river Gambeela."

[IamDZJ]

That was interesting dino.
Mature up graveyard. No need to be childish.

[Michin Khel]

Bannu (an important city and district in south KP)


Many theories have been proposed
about the origin of the word “Bannu”. But the most widely recognized view is that the word
“Bannu” is derived from “Bano.” “Bano” was the wife of Shah Farid alias “****ak- the founder of the present day Bannu and the founder
of Banouchi Tribes. “Bano” was the sister of “Rustum” and the daughter of Zalizar and when she was
married to Shah Farid, Rustum
conferred upon her as dowry.

[Michin Khel]

Daraban (a town and tehsil of dera ismael khan)


There are various theories as to the
origin of the word Daraban. The word
“Daraban”, according to some accounts actually came from term
”Durruh-Bund” which means the closed pass. Centuries back the people
who setlled down in present day
Draban aimed to close the pass which
connected Draban with Sherani hills. Sherani hill tribe in those days was in habit of pillaging villages in Damaan
below their hills. The term" Durruh_
Bund” in due course of time became the name of the village of people living
in present day Draban. ”Durruh-Bund” got shortened as Daraban and now in
further reduced form the word is
pronounced as Draban. According to
another popular narrative the words
Daraban and Darazinda, the chief town
of F.R Sherani originate in similar sound, are Persian in origin and can
be traced back to Dara Shikoh, a son
of Mughal king Shajahan. Daraban as
per this account gets translated as
Dara’s forest, here came to hunt wild animals , while Darazianda was his
zindan, or prison, there he kept his
prisoners. The former account as to
the origin of the name of the town
seems more plausible and is very
much attested by the history of enmity and hostility between Sherani tribe and Miankhel Pashtoon possessors of
Draban.

[Michin Khel]

Dera ismail khan (famous city and district in south KP

Dera Ismail Khan was founded toward
the end of the fifteenth century by
Ismail Khan, a son of the Arab
adventurer Malik Sohrab, who named the town after himself. Dera means
"settlement" or "abode". The original
town was swept away by a flood in
1823, and the existing buildings are
all of relatively modern construction. [1] The present town stands four miles (6 km) back from the permanent
channel of the river. However, later research does not
support this theory. Firstly, Malik
Sohrab was not an Arab adventurer
but a Hote Baluch who was appointed
Soobadar of this area by the Langha
rulers of Multan. Similarly the city could not have been founded towards the
end of fifteenth century; because
when Babar came here in 1506 he
passed through this plane which is
now called Dama'an and referred to it
as Dasht and went up to Tank but did not mention any city around here in
his Tuzk (Memoirs, originally
published in Turkish). Later we are
told that when in 1540 Sher Shah
came to Khushab, Ismail Khan of Dera
Ismail Khan went to Khushab to meet him there. So the city must have been
founded in the first quarter of the sixteenth century.

[Karachi]

^ nice, my dad lived in Dera Ismail Khan when he was a kid, he shares many stories of his younger days in that city

[Michin Khel]

Kohat (a district in KP)

It is
said that in the Buddhist times, two Rajas named Adh and Kohat settled
along with the northern border of the
district. Raja Kohat gave his name to
the town of Kohat, and Raja Adh to the
ruins of an old fort on the hill side
north of the Muhammadzai, a village four miles to the west of Kohat