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Zakka Khel, n. (and a.)
(‖ ˈzʌkkə xeːl)
Also Zaka, Zukka Kheyl, etc., and as one word.
[Native name Zakka Ḵēl, f. Zakka possibly of Pashto or Tirāhī origin, + Pashto khel clan (f. Pers., ult. f. Arab. ḵeyl (collect. n.) horse, troop of horsemen. In Pers. the word developed the additional senses ‘group of people’, ‘tribe’.]
(A member of) a nomadic Afridi clan inhabiting parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan from the slopes of the Safīd Kūh to the border of Peshawar. Also attrib. or as adj.
1860H. B. Lumsden Mission to Kandahar 68 The Zakkakhel Afridies do not consider a child properly baptised unless he has been passed backwards and forwards through a hole in a wall, with an exhortation to become an expert thief, at the same time that he receives his name. 1888Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 127 A thief of the Zukka Kheyl. 1898W. S. Churchill Let. 27 Mar. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1967) I. Compan. ii. 901 The Afridis with the exception of the Zakka Khel section have almost paid their fine in rifles. 1932C. C. Davies in Cambr. Hist. India VI. xxv. 462 The Khyber was constantly raided by Zakka Khels and Mohmands. 1962J. W. Spain Way of Pathans iii. 32 In the spring and summer of 1857 the..Zakka Khel Afridis made a series of raids upon British-administered territory around Peshawar. 1985C. C. Trench Frontier Scouts ii. 12 In the Zakka Khel campaign of 1908, all the Zakka Khel in the Khyber Rifles were paraded by the Political Agent. |