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Names, with their evidence

Names.

Separate documented use, lexical roots and personal meaning. Uncertainty stays visible.

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Shahbaz: falcon vocabulary and hockey credits

A 2015 hockey report names Shahbaz Ahmed and Shahbaz Junior. Those written distinctions help identify public credits without turning a name into a trait.

Lahore in the 2015 hockey account
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Shahzad: word, name and pen name

Naveed Ahmad Shahzad’s CV explicitly distinguishes Name from Pen Name, providing a precise Punjabi scholarly credit for a careful reading of Shahzad.

Sahiwal and Lahore
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Singh: lexical history and Sikh naming practice

A historical Punjabi dictionary and a published Sikh code show why Singh needs to be read both as a word and as an element of a recorded name.

Punjabi vocabulary and Sikh naming institutions

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