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 languages ...
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Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
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surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
, derived from Arabic meaning 'enlightenment', also derived from
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
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Punjabi language
Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers.
Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 m ...
s in India meaning 'strong in body, brave from body'.
Notable people with this given name
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Tanveer Ahmed (boxer)
Tanveer Ahmed (born 25 October 1968) is a retired Pakistani and British Pakistani boxer. He fought for the WBO Inter-Continental lightweight title, but drew in the fight. He met the streamer "PFUT" in the gym in dubai.
Personal life
He resided ...
, Pakistani boxer
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Tanveer Ahmed (footballer)
Tanveer Ahmed ( ur, تنویر احمد; born 15 April 1976) is a football manager and former player who is the current head coach of WAPDA in the Pakistan Premier League.
Club career
Ahmed started his career at CMF Sialkot, where his defensi ...
, Pakistani footballer
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Tanveer Ahmed (psychiatrist)
Tanveer Ahmed (born 1975) is a Bangladeshi born Australian psychiatrist, journalist and television presenter.
Early life
Ahmed was born in Bangladesh in 1975. He and his parents moved to Australia in 1981, and settled in Toongabbie, in the weste ...
Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed (Urdu: تنویر محمود احمد; died 2022) is a retired air chief of the Pakistan Air Force who was the Chief of the Air Staff from 2006 to 2009. He was succeeded by Rao Qamar Suleman on 18 March 2009.
, Pakistan Air Force officer
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Tanveer Ghani
Tanveer Ghani is a British actor. He has appeared in various British television programmes and British films.
One of his first roles was in the BBC hospital drama, ''Angels'' (1982). He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Rezaul Kabir ...
, British actor
* Tanvir Gill, a news anchor at CNBC
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Tanveer Haider
Tanbir Hayder Khan (born 5 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his first senior appearances in 2010, playing in two First-class cricket, first-class matches for Sylhet Division cricket team, Sylhet Division. He later made his Lis ...
Tanvir Hussain
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada, disguised as soft drinks. The plot was discovered by British M ...
, English terrorist convicted for the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
* Tanvir Islam, Bangladeshi scientist
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Tanveer Ashraf Kaira
Tanveer Ashraf Kaira (born August 25, 1960), is a Pakistani politician. He is the former Finance minister of Punjab, Pakistan. He was elected as a Member Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in General Elections 2002. He won again in 2008 as MPA an ...
Tanvir Mehdi
Tanvir Mehdi (born November 7, 1972, in Lahore, Punjab), is a former Pakistani cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, ea ...
, Pakistani cricketer
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Tanvir Mokammel
Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards total ten times for the films ''Nodir Naam Modhumoti'' (1995), '' Chitra Nodir Pare'' ( ...
, Bangladeshi film director
* Tanveer Naqvi, Pakistani general
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Tanvir Sadiq
Tanvir Sadiq is the Chief Spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Advisor to the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah.
Born in Srinagar into a political family, he did his schooling from Burn Hall School, ...
, Indian politician
* Tanveer Zaidi.Indian film actor and educationist
* Tanvir Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
* Tanvir Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricket umpire
* Tanvir Tareq, Bangladeshi music composer, director, singer, and television anchor
Shehzad Tanweer
Shehzad Tanweer (15 December 1982 – 7 July 2005) was one of four Islamist terrorists who detonated explosives in three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 56 people were killed ...
, English Islamic terrorist and perpetrator of the 7/7 attacks
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Sohail Tanvir
Sohail Tanvir ( ur, ; born 12 December 1984) is a Pakistani cricketer, who has gained considerable international repute for his unorthodox left arm bowling action and particularly for the success it has gained him in the Twenty20 format of the ...
, Pakistani cricketer
See also
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Tanwir al-Miqbas
Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr ibn ʿAbbās (Arabic: تنوير المقباس من تفسير بن عباس) is a tafsir, attributed to Abd-Allah ibn Abbas, but which contains much atypical content for a tafsir of the sahabah. It is said to hav ...