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Yusufzai, n. and a.|ˈjuːsʊfzaɪ|
Also Yusafzai; 9 Eusofzye, Eusafzai, etc.
[a. Pers., f. yūsuf Joseph + -zāī bringing forth.]
A. n. (A member of) a Pathan tribal group inhabiting the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people.
1815M. Elphinstone Caubal iii. i. 328 The Eusofzyes are a very numerous tribe. 1838in Parl. Papers 1839 XL. 29 Shah Shooja-ool-Moolk disclaims all title..to..Peshaur, with the Eusefzye territory. 1857S. Cotton Nine Years on North-West Frontier (1868) ix. 220 The column placed under his orders on the Euzofzaie Border. 1886[see -ology, ology 2]. 1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 24 A Eusufzai horse-thief. 1899Dict. Pathan Tribes 234/1 Yusufzai (73,000), a great group of Pathan tribes which includes those of the Black Mountain, the Bunerwals, the Swatis, the people of Dir and the Panjkora valley, and the inhabitants of the Yusufzai plain in British territory. 1900R. Warburton Eighteen Years in Khyber v. 52 Mukarrub Khan of Panjtar..was another pleasing character connected with Yusufzai politics. 1940P. Sykes Hist. Afghanistan I. xix. 290 In the autumn of that same year Babur..decided on an expedition against the Yusufzais. 1953O. Caroe Soviet Empire v. 86 Another Yusufzai maira. 1958― Pathans i. 14 A Yusufzai or a Khalil..if he is asked who he is, will always reply, ‘I am an Afghan.’ 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xi. 170 The men of his own troop were drawn largely from the Border tribes: Yusafzai, Orakzai and Khattak. 1983J. C. Griffiths Queen of Spades ii. 26 Hussein Rahman, a Yusufzai Pathan. |