Sindhi names

Sindhi family names (Sindhi: سنڌي خانداني نالا‎) are used among Sindhis in Pakistan, India, and the Sindhi diaspora across the world.

Sindhi names

List of Sindhi Muslim names or Sindhi castes/tribes.

Naming conventions

Most Sindhi Hindu family names are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix -ani, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'. The first part of a Sindhi Hindu surname is usually derived from the name or location of an ancestor. In northern Sindh, surnames ending in 'ja' (meaning 'of') are also common. A person's surname would consist of the name of his or her native village, followed by 'ja'. Sindhi Hindus generally add the suffix ‘Ani’ to the name of a great grandfather and adopt the name as a family name.[1][2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sindhishaan.com/article/history/hist_01_02c.html
  2. ↑ http://sindhisms.blogspot.sg/p/sindhi-surnames.html
  3. ↑ Sakhrani, Tarun (4 January 2016). "The Sindhis of Sindh And Beyond". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2016.

Further reading

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