Zai (tribe)

Zai, different spelling include Sai, Be, Say and Say, or Zi ( Pashto / Dari ( Persian) زي ) is a Pashtun from the word for ' son ', Pashtun زوي Zoi, derived name extension. The ending is pronounced by Pashtuns as BR, while Zai is preferred by non- Pashtun population of the country and of Persian -speaking Pashtuns in the country.

The two term variations are considered a type of suffix, or appended as a suffix to names and nouns, especially the names of the ancestors of the Pashtun tribes main - the sub- tribes get appended to the ending- khel. Zai and Zi but can be found as a suffix to place names. The last name of Hamid Karzai, for example, derives from Karz, a village near Kandahar, from.

Pashtun tribes

  • Ahmadzai
  • Barakzai ( a branch of Durrani )
  • Ghilzai
  • Noorzai
  • Yussufzai Malala Yousafzai see also
  • Popalzai
  • Alekuzei
  • Mohammadzai
  • Sadozai

Etc.

Barakzai dynasty Nurzai
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