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- Persian · borrowed fromپیرْزاده
- English todayPirzada
From Persian پیرْزاده: پیر (“elder; Sufi master; saint”) + زاده (“born of; descendant of”). The name originally denoted a descendant of a Sufi saint or religious elder. Common as a surname among Muslim communities in South Asia, Iran, and Central Asia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.