Ghulam

Ghulam (Template:Lang-ar) is an Arabic word meaning servant, boy, youth. It is used to describe young servants in paradise.

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

It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires, as deribed in the article Ghilman, which is the plural form of the word.

Particular uses as a name are:

Compound names listed on further pages

• Ghulam Abbas
• Ghulam Ahmad, also Ghulam Ahmed
• Ghulam Ali
• Ghulam Faruq
• Ghulam Mohammad, also Ghulam Mohammed, Ghulam Muhammad etc.
• Ghulam Rabbani

Individual people

• Ghulam Guard
• Ghulam Haider
• Ghulam Husain Salim
• Ghulam Murtaza Syed
• Ghulam Mohiuddin
• Ghulam Mustafa
• Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931-2009), Pakistani politician
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan
• Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan (b. 1931), Hindustani classical singer
• Ghulam Mustafa Khar
• Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
• Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Ghulam Parkar
• Ghulam Rasool Santosh
• Ghulam Sediq Wardak

Places

• Ghulam Haider Khan High School
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
• Ghulam Khan

Other uses

• Ghulam (film), 1998 starring Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherjee

See also

• Ghilman