Ustad
Honorific title used for a master in various languages of the Muslim world / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the honorific title. For other uses, see Ustaad and Ostad (disambiguation).
Ustad, ustadh or ustaz (abbreviated as Ust., Ut. or Ud.; from Persian استاد ustād) is an honorific title used in West Asia, North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1] It is used in various languages, including Persian, Arabic (as أستاذ ’ustāḏ), Azerbaijani, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Dhivehi, Punjabi, Pashto, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Indonesian, Malay and Kurdish.