Arabi
Arabi (अरबी)[1] Arbi (अरबी)/(अर्बी)[2] Jat gotra gets its name from people who came from Arab. In Russia they are known as Arwat.[3] Arabi clan is found in Afghanistan.[4]
Origin
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Arbi = Sorgae = Arbae (Pliny.vi.23)
Jat Gotras Namesake
Mention by Pliny
Pliny [5] mentions ....The Persian And The Arabian Gulfs. ....After passing the promontory9 are the Armozei10, joining up to the Carmani; some writers, however, place between them the Arbii11, extending along the shore a distance of four hundred and twenty-one miles.
9 Of Harmozon, probably the modern Bombareek.
10 Their district is supposed to denote the vicinity of the modern Ormuz, an island off this coast, which is now known as Moghostan.
11 Taking their name probably from the river Arbis, previously mentioned.
History
H. W. Bellew writes that Arabi for the Indian tribe anciently seated on the Arabius river (modern Hab), on the Sind border adjoining Las province of Balochistan, the Arbies tribe of Strabo ; there are the ruins of an ancient town on the Kabul river near Peshawar, called Arabai (the Orobates of Arrian), as before related ; this may formerly have been a city of the Arabi, ancestors of those whose name we have here. [6]
H.A. Rose[7] tells us that Arbi (अरबी) a Muhammadan clan, said to be of Arabian origin, which was, in Mughal times, given several villages round Multan, but it has now to a large extent lost its hold of them. It is classed as Jat (agricultural) both in Multan and Montgomery and is also found in the Ahmadpur East tahsil of Bahawalpur.
Notable persons
References
- ↑ Dr Ompal Singh Tugania: Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu, p.27,sn-26.
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. अ-30
- ↑ Mahendra Singh Arya et al: Adhunik Jat Itihas, p.221
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew, p.121
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 28
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, H. W. Bellew, p.122
- ↑ A glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province By H.A. Rose Vol II/A, p.16
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