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Ghulam (Arabic: غلام ‎‎, Bengali: গোলাম ) is an Arabic word meaning servant, boy, youth. It is used to describe young servants in paradise. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires, as described in the article Ghilman, which is the plural form of the word.

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It can be used as the first element of a Muslim male given name, meaning servant of .. or, in modern times, as an independent surname.

People with the given name

  • Jassim Ghulam Al-Hamd (born 1979), Iraqi footballer
  • Ghulam Azam (born 1922), Bangladeshi Islamist political leader
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915–2006), President of Pakistan
  • Ghulam Mansoor (born 1812), in 1867 was Subedar-Major at Bhopal State
  • Ghulam Masih Felix, Pakistani Catholic Urdu language poet and scholar
  • Ghulam Murshid, Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist, based in London
  • Ghulam Qadir Khan (1920-1988), last ruler of the State of Las Bela in Balochistan, Pakistan
  • Arbab Ghulam Rahim (born 1957), Pakistani politician
  • Ghulam Raziq (born 1932), Pakistani hurdler
  • Ghulam Sediq Wardak (born 1942), Afghan peasant inventor

    • People with the surname

  • Nabil Gholam (born 1962), Lebanese architect
  • Ali Gholam (born 1981), Iranian footballer
  • Sara Ghulam (born 1989), Canadian model

    • References

    Ghulam Wikipedia
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