Talk:Qasim

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doesn't Qasim mean divider in Arabic.141.155.145.108 02:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

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Kasim → Qasim – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:48, 25 February 2012 (UTC) Qasim is a truer transliteration and used just as often as Kasim, if not more so. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

• Comment from the people in my area... it seems that Kassim is more likely... (assuming there is no other Arabic name that also transliterates to "Kassim") 70.24.251.71 (talk) 08:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

  There's Kazem, a different name which is capable of causing confusion. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 10:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

  Basing this on WP:RS, as one should, here are two which give the spelling as "Qasim":

  Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.

  S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.

  SamuelTheGhost (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

  The article Romanization of Arabic gives numerous transliteration schemes, but in all of them the letter (Arabic: ق), becomes "Q" except for colloquial Arabic, where "G" is sometimes an alternative. But never "K", which corresponds to a different Arabic letter. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 21:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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