Evidence record · given name
Meaning and use are separate questions.
Lexical evidence: Lexical association: victory or success; Platts also records opening and beginning.
Documented use: Documented within Sahibzada Fateh Singh in the government’s 2022 commemorative announcement.
Victory and success in a Punjabi dictionary
Maya Singh’s 1895 Punjabi dictionary records fatah with the meanings victory and success. It includes a proverb connecting enterprise with success and notes verbs used with the noun. This is a lexical record embedded in ordinary expression, rather than a promise that a person bearing the name will be victorious. The inspected Gurmukhi form belongs to this historical word entry; it is not evidence of every modern bearer’s preferred spelling.[1]
Opening, beginning and conquest
Platts’s earlier dictionary prints fatḥ and fataḥ, deriving the word from an Arabic verb meaning to open. Its senses include an opening or aperture, a beginning, and victory or conquest. This wider range matters: a historical word can develop several related applications, while an English given-name spelling does not tell us which association a particular family intended.[2]
The entry records expressions for gaining a victory, making a beginning and conquering. Its compounds include a victory announcement or bulletin, a commemorative monument and a victorious standard. These are evidence for the word’s use in communication and commemoration as well as an abstract gloss. They do not turn every compound containing the word into a personal name.[2]
A dated personal-name occurrence
A Ministry of Home Affairs announcement dated 9 January 2022 records the decision to commemorate 26 December as Veer Baal Diwas. It names Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Sahibzada Fateh Singh and identifies them as the younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh. The complete published form places Fateh alongside a title and Singh; those additional elements should be retained when identifying this person in that source.[3]
The announcement documents how the name was used in a specific act of public remembrance. The dictionaries answer a different question about vocabulary. Reading both kinds of record together supplies a traceable lexical association and a particular named occurrence, while leaving the original family’s naming intention unestablished.[3]
Sources & notes
Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.
- Maya Singh. Fatah: entry in The Panjabi Dictionary ↗historical Punjabi dictionary entry · Source date: 1895 · Locator: Original 1895 printed pages 348; full-scan PDF pages 364; right column, FATA/FATAH entry near top. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual complete record inspected. Victory/success meanings and the proverb’s relationship between effort and success are used. The separate search for the modern-looking ਫਤਿਹ spelling returned no entry and is not treated as another source or spelling proof. The corresponding original 1895 printed page was visually reinspected; modern interface descriptions and Dalby’s 1998 guide are outside this original-text scope.Return to Script form 1 ↑Return to Victory and success in a Punjabi dictionary, paragraph 1 ↑
- John Thompson Platts. A Dictionary of Urdū, Classical Hindī, and English: fatḥ, vulgar fataḥ ↗original historical dictionary entry · Source date: 1884 work; consulted Sampson Low impression undated · Locator: Printed 776; scan part 2, PDF 172; fatḥ, vulgar fataḥ. Accessed 2026-11-02.Selected printed entry and relevant original corrections inspected. First-edition text; consulted impression is undated. Modern search interfaces and personal naming intentions are outside this lexical scope.Return to Opening, beginning and conquest, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Opening, beginning and conquest, paragraph 2 ↑
- Ministry of Home Affairs; Press Information Bureau, India. Government of India decides to commemorate 26 thDecember as Veer Baal Diwas ↗government commemorative primary source · Source date: 2022-01-09 · Locator: 9 January 2022 dated announcement; Sahibzada Zorawar Singh and Sahibzada Fateh Singh name forms. Accessed 2026-11-01.Actual complete public notice inspected. Used for the decision/date and explicitly printed personal-name relationships. Its contested historical chronology, precise ages and political praise are not converted to independent biographical findings.Return to A dated personal-name occurrence, paragraph 1 ↑Return to A dated personal-name occurrence, paragraph 2 ↑
Record PH-NAM-0029 · English edition · human review not performed