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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname used extensively among Christians of Northern South Asia.
Borrowed from Hindi मसीह (masīh), from Urdu مسیح (“Christ, messiah”), from Classical Persian مَسِيح (“messiah, Christ”), from Arabic مَسِيح (masīḥ, “anointed, messiah”).
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