Pirzada

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UK/pɪəˈzɑːdə/US/pɪrˈzɑːdə/

proper noun

A surname from Asian languages, particularly Persian.

OriginPersian پیرْزاده →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname from Asian languages, particularly Persian.

    “Something happened over there,” Abdulrazzak Pirzada said of Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, adding that “he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. … I’m sure he had something that happened to him overseas.”

    2015 July 17, Ben Brumfield, Yasmin Khorram, Scott Zamost, “Chattanooga shooter changed after Mideast visit, friend says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2018

Origin

  1. Persianپیرْزاده
  2. EnglishPirzada

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.

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APA

Pirzada. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pirzada

MLA

“Pirzada.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pirzada. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pirzada,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pirzada.

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