List: Titles in Pakistan

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•  Malik

  'Malik is an Arabic word meaning "king. " It has been adopted in various other, mainly Islamized or Arabized, Asian languages for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere; furthermore it is sometimes used in derived meanings. Malik is one of the names of Allah, "King" in the absolute sense. Alternative forms are Malek and Maalik. The female version of Malik is Malikah (or its Persian language equivalent '), meaning "queen".

  

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•  Sharif

  Sharīf is a traditional Arab tribal title given to those who serve as the protector of the tribe and all tribal assets, such as property, wells, and land. The feminine form is sharifa(h). Primarily Sunnis in the Arab world reserve the term sharif for descendants of Hasan ibn Ali, while sayyid is used for descendants of Husayn ibn Ali. Both Hasan and Husayn are grandchildren of Prophet Muhammad, through the marriage of his cousin Ali and his daughter Fatima.

  

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•  Sultan

  Sultan is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the masdar سلطة sulṭah, meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain Muslim rulers who claimed almost full sovereignty in practical terms (i.e.

  

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•  Shah

  Shah is a Persian term for a king (leader) that has been adopted in many other languages.

  

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•  Emir

  Emir, ("commander" or "general", also "prince"; also transliterated as amir, aamir or ameer) is a high title of nobility or office, used throughout the Arab World, as well as historically in 19th-century Afghanistan and in the medieval Muslim world. Emirs are usually considered high-ranking sheikhs, but in monarchical states the term is also used for princes, with "Emirate" being analogous to principality in this sense.

  

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•  Khan (title)

  Khan is an originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, first used by medieval Altaic-speaking nomadic tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is first seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283–289. The probably proto-Mongolian Rourans were the first people who used the titles Khagan and Khan for their emperors, replacing the Chanyu of the Xiongnu, whom Grousset and others assume to be Turkic.

  

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•  Vizier

  A vizier is a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or minister, often to an Ottoman Empire's or Persian Empire's monarchs such as Shah and Shahenshah. In Persian Empire the viziers were the ministers of the king. The word originally taken from middle Persian (Pahlavi) and literally means "arbitrator and judge". Also, it sometimes refers to ministers and advisors of the Muslim's caliph, or sultan.

  

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•  Raja

  Raja (also spelled Rajah, from Sanskrit rājān-, nominative rājā) is the Hindustani term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna. The female form, the word for "queen", mainly used for a Raja's wife, is Rani (sometimes spelled Ranee), from Sanskrit rājñī. The title has a long history in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, being attested from the Rigveda, where a rājān- is a ruler, see for example the, the "battle of ten kings".

  

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•  Nawab

  A Nawab or Nawaab was originally the subedar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or region of the Mughal empire. It became a high title for Muslim nobles.

  

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•  Zamindar

  A zamindar or zemindar, was an official employed by the Mughals to collect taxes from peasants. The zamindari system used the existing structure of the bhuiyan land tenure system of the pre-Mughal era by the Mughals as a key economic and political institution to implement the sharia-based Islamic rule over the "zimmis". The practice was continued under British rule with colonial landholders.

  

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•  Nizam

  Nizam, a shortened version of Nizam-ul-Mulk, meaning Administrator of the Realm, was the title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad State, India, since 1719, belonging to the Asaf Jah dynasty.

  

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•  Mir (title)

  Mir is a title which is derived from the Arabic title Emir or Amir . It was adopted in many languages under Islamic influence, such as Persian (مير), Pashto and Urdu, meaning leader of a group or tribe in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  

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•  Sardar

  Sardar is a title of Persian origin, used for military or political leaders. The word's cognate in Persian, Sardâr, means commander. Literally sar means "head" while dâr means "holder" in Persian. Thus, the term Sardar may also mean a military or political leader, comparable to the English chieftain. In Pakistan, the leaders of Balochi, Kashmiri, Pashtun, Punjabi, Seraiki, Sindhi tribes and clans have the title Sardar.

  

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•  Padishah

  Padishah, Padshah, Padeshah, Badishah or Badshah is a superlative royal title, composed of the Persian pād "master" and the widespread shāh "king", which was adopted by several monarchs claiming the highest rank, roughly equivalent to the ancient Persian notion of "The Great" or "Great King", and later adopted by post-Achaemenid and Christian Emperors. The Sanskrit kshatrapati is a near-cognate. The word Padshah later evolved to the Turkishized word Pasha.

  

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•  Baig

  Baig or Bick or Beg or Begg is a Turkic family name. The wife of Baig was referred to as Begum or Bickum or Baigum.

  

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•  Effendi

  Effendi or Efendi is a nobility title meaning a lord or master. It is a title of respect or courtesy, equivalent to the English Sir, which was used in Turkey. It follows the personal name, when it is used, and is generally given to members of the learned professions and to government officials who have no higher rank, such as bey or pasha. It may also indicate a definite office, as hekim efendi, chief physician to the sultan.

  

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•  Khatun

  Khatun is a female title of nobility and alternative to male "khan" prominently used in the First Turkish Empire and in the subsequent Mongol Empire. It is equivalent to "queen" or "empress" approximately. Although the title gained prominence among the Turko-Mongol tribes of Inner Asia, it is - like the titles Tarkhan, Beg and Yabghu - not of Altaic, but of Indo-European (in this case Middle Iranian) Sogdian origin.

  

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•  Mirza

  The title Mirza is a high title of nobility, originally used in the Persian Court. Starting in the 15th century, the title was also adopted by the Ottomans, Mughals, and various Tatar khanates and is still in use, in areas which were conquered by them (from modern day Eastern Europe/Former Yugoslavia to South Asia).

  

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•  Diwan (title)

  

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•  Mian

  Mian is family name and a title of nobility and used by Muslims in the Punjab region of South Asia.

  

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•  Sahib

  Sahib is an Arabic term which literally translates to "Owner" or "Proprieter". It has passed on to several languages including Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Pashto, Farsi and Marathi. It has been translated in the Indian sub-continent after the advent of colonialism as: or, as in the Sikh religion, "Guru's honor. " It comes from the Arabic ṣāḥib صاحب, originally "Owner" but in a different context of usage; "Suhabaa",it can mean "companion" (from ṣaḥiba صحب "he accompanied").

  

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•  Jam Sahib

  Jam Sahib is the title of the ruling prince of Nawanagar, now known as Jamnagar, an Indian princely state. The Jam Sahibs were from the Jam Jadeja clan, who are a branch of Samma Rajput. The name of Jamnagar was derived from the same root. The title Jam sahib is also used by the ruler of the State of Las Bela in Balochistan, whose origins are in Samma rajputs.

  

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•  Begum

  Begum, Begüm or Baigum is a Turkic title given to female family members of a Baig or 'Beg', a higher official. The term Begum is derived from the word Beg, and means a female member of the Beg's family. It is an honorific address and title given to women of rank in South Asia. It used to be conferred upon women of royalty or aristocracy and also to women with high ranking social status, and could also mean "Queen".

  

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•  Faujdar

  Faujdar was a title awarded by Muslim rulers to people who had responsibility of protecting some territory. In pre-Mughal times, the term referred to a military officer but did not refer to a specific rank. With the administrative reforms performed by Mughal emperor Akbar, this rank was systemised. The empire as a whole was divided into provinces known as subah, which were further divided into sarkars, and then parganas.

  

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•  Agha (Ottoman Empire)

  Agha, also Aga, as a title for a civil or military officer, or often part of such title, was placed after the name of certain military functionaries in the Ottoman Empire. At the same time some court functionaries were entitled to the agha title.

  

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