User talk:Japji

March 2008

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Kaur

The Ref was intially copied from Oxford Name Dictionary. That Website is used to find out Surnames that were defined by International Oxford Name Dictionary. If that is American how could they have information about Indian surnames ? --AndDTruthIsOut (talk) 05:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The book was published in America, however the dictionary was made by Oxford University --AndDTruthIsOut (talk) 05:14, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It already says -- Indian (chiefly Panjab): term used by Hindu and Sikh women either as the final element of a compound personal name or as a last name. It cannot be regarded as a true surname or family name. It goes back to Sanskrit kumari ‘girl’, ‘daughter’, which was reduced to kuar and then changed into kaur by metathesis. Among Sikhs, female names are often derived from male names by the addition of Kaur to the male name: e.g. Mahinder Kaur, from the male name Mahinder.

That doesnt seem to be American to me It looks like Indian or Punjabi. You can Purchase The Book if you want to know more about it. Its listed on the side of the page see [1] --AndDTruthIsOut (talk) 05:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]