To: Chairman Fred; Shermy; nevergore; swarthyguy
Ashar Iqbal Butt ... a real name?Yes. Oddly enough, I seem to remember Hindus with the last name Butt, a (regional?) variant of Bhatta. In the same way Dhatta becomes Dutt.
Evidently there are Muslim Butts as well. ;-)
Swarthyguy, could you possibly fill us in on name-meanings and so forth?
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06/27/2002 5:31:22 PM PDT by
dighton
To: dighton; Chairman Fred; Shermy; nevergore
Ashar Iqbal Butt ... a real name?
Yes. Oddly enough, I seem to remember Hindus with the last name Butt, a (regional?) variant of Bhatta. In the same way Dhatta becomes Dutt.
Evidently there are Muslim Butts as well. ;-)
"name-meanings and so forth?"
There's a Palestinian spokesman on TV lately; a young woman with the last name Butto. Very pretty and very articulate. But, in India, numerous versions abound -- Bhatia, Bhutto, Butta, Dutta, Dutt, and other variations like Khattu, Khutto, Bhutt.
What they all mean, I don't know. But it has surprised me to find names i thought of as all hindu turn out to be muslim as well like chowdhury - choudhury - in particular. Some are common, like Malik.
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