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The Yusufzai or Yousafzai ( ps, یوسفزی, ), also referred to as the Esapzai (, ) are one of the largest tribes of ethnic
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. They are natively based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to which they migrated to from
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during the 16th century, but they are also present in smaller numbers in parts of Afghanistan, including Kunar, Kabul, Kandahar and Farah. Outside of these countries, they can be found in
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,
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Ghoriwala (Mughal Khel), Balochistan Sibi ( Akazai) and Chagai ( Hassanzai). Their name may originate from the names of the ''Aspasioi'' and the '' Aśvakan'', who were the ancient inhabitants of the Kunar,
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, and adjoining valleys in the Hindu Kush. Most of the Yusufzai speak a northern variety of Pashto and some southern variety of Pashto (as in case of Mughal Khel) and Afghan dialect Persian; the Yusufzai dialect is considered prestigious in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.


Etymology

In Pashto phonology, as /f/ is found only in loanwords and tends to be replaced by /p/, the name is usually pronounced as ''Yūsəpzay'' or ''Īsəpzay''. The name literally means "descendant of Yusuf" in Pashto; ''Yūsuf'' () is an Arabic and Aramaic masculine given name meaning "(God) shall add." According to some scholars, including philologist
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, the name ''Yūsəpzay'' or ''Īsəpzay'' is derived from the tribal names of ''Aspasioi'' and ''Assakenoi'' – the ancient inhabitants of the Kunar Valley and the Swat Valley who offered resistance when Alexander invaded their land in 327–326 BCE. According to historian
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, the ''Assakenoi'' were either allied to or a branch of the larger ''Aspasioi'', and both of these ancient tribal names were probably derived from the word '' Aśvaka'', which literally means "horsemen", "horse breeders", or "
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" (from ''
aśva Ashva () is the Sanskrit word for a horse, one of the significant animals finding references in the Vedas as well as later Hindu scriptures. The word is cognate to Avestan language, Avestan (), Latin ''Equus (genus), equus'', Ancient Greek (), P ...
'' or ''aspa'', the Sanskrit and
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words for " horse"). McCrindle noted: "The name of the ''Aśvaka'' indicates that their country was renowned in primitive times, as it is at the present day, for its superior breed of horses. The fact that the Greeks translated their name into "Hippasioi" (from ''ἵππος'', a horse) shows that they must have been aware of its etymological signification." The name of the ''Aśvakan'' or ''Assakan'' is also the origin of the ethnonym '' Afghān'', which has been historically used for all Pashtuns.


Mythical genealogy

According to a popular mythical genealogy, recorded by 17th-century Mughal courtier Nimat Allah al-Harawi in his book ''Tārīkh-i Khān Jahānī wa Makhzan-i Afghānī'', the Yusufzai tribe descended from their eponymous ancestor Yūsuf, who was son of Mand, who was son of Khashay (or Khakhay), who was son of Kand, who was son of Kharshbūn, who was son of Saṛban (progenitor of the Sarbani tribal confederacy), who was son of
Qais Abdur Rashid Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed ( ps, قيس عبد الرشيد) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony betw ...
(progenitor of all Pashtuns). Qais Abdur Rashid was a descendant of
Afghana Afghana or Avagana is a tribal chief or prince of Pashtuns, who is traditionally considered the progenitor of modern-day Pashtuns,Socio-economic Behaviour of Pukhtun Tribe By Dipali Saha, Dipali Saha - 2006 - 282 pages - Page 124.India and the Af ...
, who was described as a grandson of the Israelite king Saul and commander-in-chief of the army of prophet
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. Qais was claimed to be a contemporary of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a kinsman of Arab commander
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. When Khalid ibn al-Walid summoned Qais from Ghor to Medina, Qais accepted Islam and the prophet renamed him ''Abdur Rashīd'' (meaning "Servant of the Guide to the Right Path" or "Servant of God" in Arabic). Abdur Rashid returned to Ghor and introduced Islam there. The book stated that Yūsuf's grandfather (and Mand's father), Khashay, also had two other sons, Muk and Tarkalāṇī, who were the progenitors of the
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and
Tarkani The Tarkani ( ps, ترکاڼي '; ur, ترکانی) or Tarkalani ( ps, ترکلاڼي '; ur, ترکلانی) is a Pashtun tribe mainly settled in Bajaur Agency, Lower Dir district of Pakistan but originally hailed from the Laghman province of m ...
tribes, respectively. Yūsuf had one brother, Umar, who was the progenitor of the Mandanr tribe, which is closely related to Yusufzais. The 1595 Mughal account ''Ain-i-Akbari'' also mentioned the tradition of Israelite descent among Pashtuns, which shows that the tradition was already popular among 16th-century Pashtuns.


History


Peace treaty with Babur

During the early modern period, the Yusufzai tribe of Afghans was first explicitly mentioned in ''
Baburnama The ''Bāburnāma'' ( chg, ; literally: ''"History of Babur"'' or ''"Letters of Babur"''; alternatively known as ''Tuzk-e Babri'') is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great- ...
'' by
Babur Babur ( fa, , lit= tiger, translit= Bābur; ; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Mīrzā Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his ...
, a
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ruler from
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(in present-day Uzbekistan) who captured Kabul in
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. On 21 January 1519, two weeks after his
Bajaur massacre The Bajaur massacre or Battle of Bajaur was a military conflict waged by Babur against the tribes inhibiting Bajaur region, on 6–7 January 1519. Babur, a Timurid dynasty, Timurid (and later Mughal Empire, Mughal) ruler from Fergana Valley, Fer ...
, Babur wrote: "On Friday we marched for Sawad (
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), with the intention of attacking the Yusufzai Afghans, and dismounted in between the water of Panjkora and the united waters of Chandāwal (Jandul) and Bajaur. Shah Mansur Yusufzai had brought a few well-flavoured and quite intoxicating confections." As part of a treaty with Yusufzai Afghans, Babur married
Bibi Mubarika Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai ( ps, بيبي مبارکه یوسفزۍ;) was the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire. She was the fifth wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. She is frequently mentioned in ...
, daughter of Yusufzai chief Shah Mansur, on 30 January 1519.Bibi Mubarika played an important role in the establishment of friendly relations of Yusufzai Pashtun chiefs with Babur, who later founded the Mughal Empire after defeating Pashtun Sultan
Ibrahim Lodi Ibrahim Khan Lodi (or Lodhi) (Pashto: ابراهیم خان لودي), (1480 – 21 April 1526) was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, who became Sultan in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Khan Lodi. He was the last ruler of th ...
at the
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in 1526. One of Mubarika's brothers, Mir Jamal Yusufzai, accompanied Babur to India in 1525 and later held high posts under Mughal emperors Humayun and
Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...
.


Skirmishes with Mughal forces

During the 1580s, many Yusufzais and Mandanrs rebelled against the Mughals and joined the
Roshani movement The Rōshānī movement ( ps, روښاني غورځنګ, "the enlightened movement") was a populist, nonsectarian Sufi movement that was founded in the mid-16th century and arose among Afghan tribes. The movement was founded by the Afghan or Pash ...
of Pir Roshan. In late 1585, Mughal Emperor
Akbar Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...
sent military forces under Zain Khan Koka and Birbal to crush the rebellion. In February 1586, about 8,000 Mughal soldiers, including Birbal, were killed near the
Karakar Pass Karakar Pass ( ps, کړاکړ دره; el. 1336 m./4384 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush, connecting Swat and Buner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. From the top of the pass, one can view Buner Valley. It was at this pass in Februa ...
between Swat and Buner by the Yusufzai lashkar led by Kalu Khan. This was the greatest disaster faced by the Mughal Army during Akbar's reign. In 1630, under the leadership of Pir Roshan's great-grandson, Abdul Qadir, thousands of Pashtuns from the Yusufzai, Mandanrs, Kheshgi, Mohmand, Afridi, Bangash, and other tribes launched an attack on the Mughal Army in Peshawar. In 1667, the Yusufzai again revolted against the Mughals, with one of their chiefs in Swat proclaiming himself the king. Muhammad Amin Khan brought a 9,000 strong Mughal Army from Delhi to suppress the revolt. Although the Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...
was able to conquer the southern Yusufzai plains within the northern Kabul valley, he failed to wrest Swat and the adjoining valleys from the control of the Yusufzai.


Durrani period

Ahmad Shah Durrani Ahmad Shāh Durrānī ( ps, احمد شاه دراني; prs, احمد شاه درانی), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (), was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern Afghanistan. In July 1747, Ahm ...
(1747–1772), the founder of the Afghan
Durrani Empire The Durrani Empire ( ps, د درانيانو ټولواکمني; fa, امپراتوری درانیان) or the Afghan Empire ( ps, د افغانان ټولواکمني, label=none; fa, امپراتوری افغان, label=none), also know ...
, categorized all Afghan tribes into four ''ulūs'' (tribal confederacies) for administrative purposes: Durrani, Ghilji,
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, and Bar Durrani ("Upper Durranis"). The Yusufzai were included in the Bar Durrani confederacy along with other eastern Pashtun tribes, including the Mohmand, Afridi, Bangash, and Khattak.The Pearl of Pearls: The Abdālī-Durrānī Confederacy and Its Transformation under Aḥmad Shāh, Durr-i Durrān by Sajjad Nejatie. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80750. The Bar Durrani were also known as the
Rohilla Rohillas are a community of Pashtun ancestry, historically found in Rohilkhand, a region in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It forms the largest Pashtun diaspora community in India, and has given its name to the Rohilkhand region. The Ro ...
, and comprised the bulk of those Pashtuns who settled in
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, India.
Najib ad-Dawlah Najib ad-Dawlah ( ps, نجيب الدوله), also known as Najib Khan Yousafzai ( ps, نجيب خان), was a Rohilla Yousafzai Afghan who earlier served as a Mughal serviceman but later deserted the cause of the Mughals and joined Ahmed S ...
, who belonged to the Yusufzai tribe, was a prominent Rohilla chief. In the 1740s, he founded the city of
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in Rohilkhand. In 1757, he supported Ahmad Shah Durrani in his attack on Delhi. After his victory, Ahmad Shah Durrani re-installed the Mughal emperor
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on the Delhi throne as the titular Mughal head, but gave the actual control of Delhi to Najib ad-Daula. From 1757 to 1770, Najib ad-Daula served as the governor of
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, also ruling over
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. In 1761, he took part in the Third Battle of Panipat and provided thousands of Rohilla troops and many guns to Ahmad Shah Durrani to defeat the Marathas. He also convinced Shuja-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, to join the Durrani forces. Before his departure from Delhi, Ahmad Shah Durrani appointed Najib ad-Dawlah as ''mir bakshi'' (paymaster-general) of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. After his death in 1770, Najib ad-Dawlah was succeeded by his son,
Zabita Khan Zabita Khan Rohilla (died 21 January 1785) was a Rohilla chieftain in the time of the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. Biography Zabita Khan was the eldest son of Najib-ud-Daula, a leader of the Afghan Rohilla and founder of the city of Najibaba ...
, who was defeated in 1772 by the Marathas, forcing him to flee from Rohilkhand. However, the descendants of Najib ad-Dawlah continued to rule Najibabad area until they were defeated by the British at
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on 21 April 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Today, many Yusufzais are settled in India, most notably in Rohilkhand region, as well as in Farrukhabad, which was founded in 1714 by Pashtun Nawab
Muhammad Khan Bangash Nawab Ghazanfar-Jang, Bangash Khan (1665 – 1743) was the first Nawab of Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was a "Bawan Hazari Sardar" (Commander of 52,000 men strong force) in the Mughal Army. He served as governor of Malwa Subah, Malwa a ...
.


States of Swat and Dir

In 1849, Yusufzais established the
state of Swat State of Swat (Urdu, ps, ; locally called as Dera Swat) was a kingdom established in 1849 that was ruled by chiefs known as Akhunds. It was then recognized as a princely state in alliance with the British Indian Empire between 1926 and 1 ...
under the leadership of Saidu Baba, who appointed Sayyid Akbar Shah, a descendant of Pir Baba, as the first emir. After Akbar Shah's death in 1857, Saidu Baba assumed control of the state himself. In Dir, descendants of 17th-century Akhund Ilyas Yusufzai, the founder of the city of Dir, laid the foundation of the state of Dir. In 1897, the British Raj annexed Dir and granted the title of the "Nawab of Dir" to Sharif Khan Akhundkhel, the ruler of Dir (1886–1904). In 1926, the British Raj granted the title of the "Wali of Swat" to Miangul Abdul Wadud, the ruler of Swat (1918–1949). The princely states of Swat and Dir existed until 1969, after which they were merged into West Pakistan, and then in 1970 into the North-West Frontier Province (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan. Their area is part of the present-day Buner, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Malakand, Shangla, and
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districts.


Pashto dialect

Yusufzai Pashto, which is a variety of Northern Pashto, is the prestige variety of Pashto in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Some of its consonants differ from the other dialects:


Society

The Yusufzai Pashtun
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was historically divided into several communities based on patrilineal segmentary groups: ;''Khān'' The ''khān'' referred to the Yusufzai landowners. In the 16th century, saint Sheikh Milli, a prominent Yusufzai dignitary, distributed the Yusufzai land among the major Yusufzai tribal clans (''khēl''). However, to avoid inequalities, he ordered that the lands should not become permanent property of the clans, but rather they should be realloted within the patrilineal clans periodically after every ten years or so. In this system (''wēsh''), each landowning ''khān'' would own shares (''brakha'') representing his proportion of the total area distributed. Through a regular rotation of ownership, the Yusufzai landowners would migrate for up to 30 miles for their new share after each cycle, although the tenants cultivating the land would stay on. The ''wēsh'' system operated among the Yusufzai of Swat region until at least 1920s. ;''Hamsāya'' The ''hamsāya'' or "shade sharers" were the clients or dependents from other (non-Yusufzai) Pashtun tribes who became attached to the Yusufzai tribe over the years. ;''Faqīr'' The ''faqīr'' or "poor" were the non-Pashtun landless peasants who were assigned to the Yusufzai landowners. As dependent peasants, the ''faqīr'' used to pay rent for the land they cultivated. In the 19th century, the distinction between ''hamsāya'' as a "dependent Pashtun tribe" and ''faqīr'' as "non-Pashtun landless peasants" became blurred. Both terms were then interchangeably used to simply refer to landless dependents or clients. ;''Mlātəṛ'' The ''mlātəṛ'' or "supporters" provided services to their patrons as artisans (''kasabgar''), musicians (''ḍəm''), herders, or commercial agents, mostly in return for a payment in grain or rice. ;''Ghulām'' The ''ghulām'' or "slaves" were more closely attached to their patron and his family and frequently entrusted with a variety of functions within their master's household. Although the ''ghulām'' were less free as compared to the ''hamsāya'' or the ''faqīr'', they generally enjoyed a higher status in the society.


Subtribes

* Abakhel * Akazai *
Babuzai Babuzai is a Union Council located in Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The reason Babuzai is called Babuzai is because one of Pashtun tribe Babuzai is living here. District Mardan has 3 Tehsil Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers ...
*
Balarkhel Balar Khel (بلڑ خیل) is the largest Khel in Usi Khel, Aba Khel subtribe of Mandanr Yusafzai inhabiting Yar Hussain village Swabi District & Garhi Kapoora Mehmood Abad Gumbat Mardan villages of Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in P ...
* Chagharzai *
Degankhel The Degankhel is a Pashtuns, Pashtun tribe, primarily living in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The tribe predominantly lives in the districts of North Waziristan, Dir District, Dir, Bajaur, Shabqadar ] Haleemzai,khobai,Morankorona], and Swat, Pakista ...
* Hassanzai *
Kamalzai The Yusufzai or Yousafzai ( ps, یوسفزی, ), also referred to as the Esapzai (, ) are one of the largest tribes of ethnic Pashtuns. They are natively based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to which they migrated to from Suliman mountains du ...
* Khan KhelDictionary of the Pathan Tribes of the North West Frontier of India"''
(Part I. North of the Kabul River, including all Mohmands, and tribes west of the Indus), published by The General Staff Army Headquarter, Calcutta, India - (Originally Published 1910) :: The ''Khan Khel'' are mentioned on Page 26 (under ‘K’ -''Khan Khel'')
* Khwaja Khel (Khwajgan) *
Madakhel The Madakhel is a Pakhtoon/Pashtoon/Pathan tribe. It is a division of the Isazai clan of the Yousafzai tribe. History The Madakhels are from the family of The Black Mountain (Tor Ghar) Tribes. They are a division of the Isazai clan of the Yousaf ...
* Mahabatkhel
Mughal Khel
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* Mandanr ** Khadarzai ** Babakhel ** Barakhankhel *
Niamatkhel Niamat Khel is a Yusufzai subtribe. They are mainly found in the Galoch, Sirsiani, Kanju, Aligrama, Hazara, and Gul Jaba villages of Swat, Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), ...
* Akozai *
Nikpikhel Naikpikhel (also known as Nekbikhel in Pashto: ps, نیکپی خیل) is a sub-clan of the Yousafzai Pashtun tribe in Swat, residing in the surrounding area of Tehsil Kabal, Swat, situated just opposite to Mingora on the western bank of the Riv ...
*
Ranizai The Ranizai are a sub tribe of the Yusufzai Pashtun tribe in the Malakand District in North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Provi ...
*
Tahirkheli The Tahir Kheli (also Tar Kheli) is a Pashtun tribe which mainly dwells in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. See also * Tahir Kheli Pashtun people * Hazara people The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzər ...
* Mulakhel * Edadkhel


Notable Yusufzais/Yousafzais

* Gaju Khan *
Bibi Mubarika Bibi Mubarika Yusufzai ( ps, بيبي مبارکه یوسفزۍ;) was the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire. She was the fifth wife of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. She is frequently mentioned in ...
*
Kalu khan Kalu Khan is a village located between Shawwa-Adda and Adina village on the main Mardan–Swabi road in Khyber–Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Kalu Khan was upgraded to the status of "Tehsil Headquarters" of District Swabi during the ANP (A ...
* Bhaku Khan Yousafzai * Najib khan Yousafzai * Captain Sher Khan *
Rahimullah Yusufzai Rahimullah Yusufzai (رحیم اللہ یوسُفزئی) (10 September 1954 – 9 September 2021) was a Pakistani journalist, political and security analyst, best known for having interviewed Osama bin Laden, and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Om ...
*
Murad Saeed Murad Saeed ( ur, ; born 17 August 1995) is a Pakistani politician who served as Federal Minister for Communications and Federal Minister for Postal Services from December 2018 to April 2022. Previously, he served as Minister of State for C ...
* Nigar Johar *
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*
Abaseen Yousafzai Abaseen Yousafzai ( ur, اباسين يوسفزے) ( ps, اباسین یوسفزے) is a Pashtun poet from Pakistan. He is the chairman of Pashto Department in Islamia College Peshawar. Yousafzai has had his poetry published across the Durand ...
* Salim Khan (Ancestral, born in
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, India) * Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan ( Urdu Speaker from Bhopal, India)


Notes

* In Pashto, "Yusufzai" (, usəpˈzay is the masculine singular form of the word. Its feminine singular is "Yusufzey" (, usəpˈzəy, while its plural is "Yusufzi" (, usəpˈzi.


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{{Pashtun tribes Social groups of Pakistan Groups claiming Israelite descent