Babuzai (also spelled: Babozai) (
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
: بابوزي) is a
Pashtun tribe
The Pashtun tribes ( ps, پښتانه قبايل), historically also known as Afghan tribes, are the tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who use the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali code of conduct. They ar ...
.
History
Babuzai is named after Babu (Often called: Baizai). There is a tradition among
Pashtuns
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...
that they name the tribe after the name of that person from whom the clan or tribe has been initiated, the descendant are named after their first ancestor.
for instance, Babu is the name of a person, his descendant until now are called Babuzai.
See also
*
Khalil (Pashtun tribe) The Khalil ( ps, خليل) is the 1st son of Ghoryakhel settled between 1530 and 1535 in Peshawar west Pakistan.
The Khalil ( ps, خليل) is a Pashtun Ghoryakhel subtribe primarily living in the Peshawar Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, wi ...
*
Qais Abdur Rashid
References
Further reading
* Ewans Martin, (2002) Afghanistan: a short history of its people and politics: Publisher Perennial
* Romano, Amy (2003). A Historical Atlas of Afghanistan. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 28. . Retrieved 2010-10-17.
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Khan, Roshan (1986). ''Yūsufzaʼī qaum kī sarguzasht''. Karachi: Roshan Khan and Company.
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Khan, Roshan (1983). ''Malika-e Swat'', 1st Edition, 1983: Roshan Khan and Company.
*''Tawarikh-e Hafiz Rehmat Khani'', 3rd Edition, 1977, Peshawar Pushtu Academy, Peshawar University.
*''Afghano ki Nasli Tarikh'', 1st Edition, 1981, Karachi Roshan Khan and Company.
*''Baba-ye Qaum Sheikhmali (RA)'', 1st Edition, 1985, Roshan Khan and Company, Phool Chowk, Karachi, Pakistan.
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Haravi Nimat Allah, ''History of the Afghans'', Translated: S. M. Imamuddin,
Dhaka
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