Pashto baby names

[tor_khan]

Most of our names stem from Persian, Pashtoon or Arabic sources. I'd be interested in favourite names (with meanings and origins) and thought we could have a little collection here.

[Laila]

Most of our names stem from Persian, Pashtoon or Arabic sources. I'd be interested in favourite names (with meanings and origins) and thought we could have a little collection here.

Tor Khan, oh my, i love you for this....i have been waiting for this thread.....here are mine

Abasin-Arabic- 'Lion'
in Pashto- River
Zmarai - Pashtun-'Tiger'
Tariq-Arabic-'Evening Caller'
Hassan-Arabic-'Handsome'

Laila-Arabic-'Night Beauty'
Jannat-Arabic-'Paradise'
Nargis-(not sure about the origin)- 'Narissus'
Heela-(not sure of the origin)-'Hope'
Yasameen-Arabic and Persian-'Jazmine flower'


i have more

[Talal]

Any one know what Talal means ? its arabic

[Dinosaur Khan]

Watan khan= name of my uncle, it means...country?

Mosam khan= name of my grandfather= it means weather

Pakistan khan= there is afghan mohajir in my village who has given this name to his son.

Israel khan= one of my cousin name is israel khan, took it frm Quran.

Samandar khan= name of pashtun poet, it means sea.

[Laila]

Any one know what Talal means ? its arabic

Talal means 'admirable'

[IamDZJ]

azghar
yalda
nazish
omar

[tor_khan]

I quite like Khawla - it's an Arab name (for girls) and it means "deer".

[tor_khan]

^ and the meaning?

You know I have an Arab friend who laughs at the tradition of naming girls Samina.

Thamina he says means precious, but maybe because Persians etc. change the pronunciation of ﺙ from ('th' as in think 's' as in sink). This change in pronunciation changes the meaning of names.

Samina unfortunately means fat girl.



Sorry any girls called Samina.

[*Mahzala*]

Pe mung khom wowayle Tor_Khan, wes taso khpel wayey kana.

I like the meaning of my own name ... (oh and I'll do for an edit in the earlier post )

[tor_khan]

Pe mung khom wowayle Tor_Khan, wes taso khpel wayey kana.

I like the meaning of my own name ... (oh and I'll do for an edit in the earlier post )

On my list of favourites:

Girls:

Kashmala/Palwasha - Pashto
Farkhanda/Farah Diba - Farsi
Hannan/Khawla - Arabic

Boys

Asfandiyar - Farsi/Pashto
Mustafa - Arabic
Abdullah - Arabic
Akbar - Arabic

A month or two back, I did actually meet someone called CharShambe. Mostly however, it's how you combine names (Persian or Arabic) and whether you combine names well e.g. Ali Akbar, I like, and I would choose to say both. Mustafa works well on its own but combines well as Ghulam Mustafa, and I like that too. Sometime a name said on it's own feels like I'm waiting for completion. The Arabs say Muhammed on its own, we tend to combine. It's all subjective of course and culturally biased. Farah Diba sounds very nice when said together (it was Queen Farah's full name - wife of the Shah of Iran).

Often I find, that there's a whole crop of Muslim names (mixed Persian/Arabic) that seem to get a revival every generation or so and when they are said in "full" they appear to sound much better than the reading names out of a book of Muslim names.

[Roshina]

Did you guys know that one of the meanings of the name "Humaira" is "little female donkey"? :O (It's claimed that the Prophet (pbuh) had nicknamed Aisha (r.) "Humaira," which means "reddish.")

But it SOO also means little female donkey! lolll...
OMG! I just found this out!

I heard two professors talking in Arabic, and one of them used the term 'humaira' and I was like, "What does that mean?" And she said, "Little female donkey."

See, Himar means "donkey." In Arabic, when you wanna say "little" something (out of love, you know), you add "ai" in the middle of it. So, examples would include Ubaidallah, which means little Abdallah. (Often this may be the name of a boy whose elder brother's name is Abdallah.) Huraira = little female cat.

And so on :D

Just thought I'd share :p I couldn't wait, lol.

As for my favorite names, I onno yet ... they change too much too often.

[Roshina]

^ and the meaning?

You know I have an Arab friend who laughs at the tradition of naming girls Samina.

Thamina he says means precious, but maybe because Persians etc. change the pronunciation of ﺙ from ('th' as in think 's' as in sink). This change in pronunciation changes the meaning of names.

Samina unfortunately means fat girl.



Sorry any girls called Samina.

YESSSSSSS!! Soo true, Tor Khana! Samina surely means "fat girl" in Arabic! It's supposed to be "Thamina" (with the letter thaa, ﺙ , as you said), not "Samina," lol. I wish more girls named Samina knew this, especially if they hate fatness or being fat or fat girls.

But, see, my thinking is this: when pronouncing certain letters is not common or easy in your native language, why should you have to adopt the letters of other languages (even if they have officially become a part of your *written* language), just so you can pronounce certain words "correctly"? For instance, I don't have a problem with the P in Pashto, which doesn't exist in Arabic. I mean, I don't mind seeing or saying or reading "Appppridi" instead of "Afridi," for example, you know? Or using "P" and "F" interchangeably at times, as in Afridi/APridil and Yusufzai and YusuPzai.

This brings me to say, though, that if a positive meaning of a good name is going to be distorted if not pronounced properly (as is the case with the name Thamina/Samina), then why the hell even take the name?! Keep a name of your own language, then, damn it.

Besides, we don't even know the meanings of most of the foreign names we keep anyway. I mean, we keep it solely on the basis that it is the name of a prophet or his relatives/friends.

Further, I've always wondered. What happens when a (non-English/non-American/etc.) Muslim has an English name? Say, I, a Muslim, choose to name my daughter, a Muslim, Nikki. Nikki means "victory of the people" and derives from the name "Nicole." I don't think there's anything wrong with this, and I wouldn't understand why anyone would think there is -- my reason being that my real name is not an Arabic name; it has no attachment to Islam, either. If I can have this non-Arabic, non-Islamic (not UN-Islamic) name that's not even Pashtun, what would Muslims/Pashtuns think if I took a name like Nikki?

To me, all that matters is the meaning of the name. My kids will have Pashtun names, ka khairee, whether their father is Pashtun or not (in which case, of course, I would have to have their father's opinion in the naming process as well), but that's just a personal preference; Pashto names appeal to me much more than do the names of other languages. I mean, take names like Kashmala! And Palwasha! And Barsalai! They even SMELL good from afar

But I just think that if we can have Arab and Persian names, we shouldn't find anything wrong with having OTHER foreign names, either. Like Amanda (means "she who must be loved" and has Latin origins; it also means "active and bright" in Sanskrit).

[Roshina]

Yep, "Humaira" - said like that is often misread here.

Wait, what? How do you write "Humaira"? It's "little female donkey" IFF it's written as حميرا.

And what is with the desi tradition of rhyming names? You get sisters called, Nasreen, Parveen, Shameem, Yasmeen, Jabeen, Mehreen, Nosheen and Shereen.

Nothing wrong with the names, just the rhyme factor tickles me.

lol. I actually always found them really nice. I used to wish my parents had named us like that :D My sisters' name and I have absolutely NO resemblance, NO pattern whatsoever! When I was a kid, that really hurt me, LOL.

How's Nazish, Mehwish, Sehrish, Beenish? "Beenish" and "Nazish" are often together; I have friends like that. So are "Sehrish" and "Mehwish"!

[tor_khan]

If I can have this non-Arabic, non-Islamic (not UN-Islamic) name that's not even Pashtun, what would Muslims/Pashtuns think if I took a name like Nikki?

With Pashtoons many names are non-Arab. Seriously, I think there is nothing wrong in digging into the archives and reviving some Pashtoon names. Palwasha and Kashmala are great for girls - I think we have the same chjoice there.

As for non-Pashtoon names (& non-Arab), what do you say to Janwaree & Faiwwaree? (My mother's cousins in Swat).

Also, you might recall that Humaira was the last Queen of Afghanistan, so I think, it qualifies as a bona fida Pashtoon name.

[Laila]

Homaira, Heela, Lamba, Palwasha, Wagma, Hawa, Haifa, Wada are beautiful names, and the girls that have those names, are actually really pretty too.

Yeah every Samina girl that i have met, tend to be on the thick side :P

For the meaning of Samima, the origin is unknown, but it comes from the guys name 'Samim' and it means "Sincere" it truly is a beautiful name, and i wish it was my name