Yusufzain.adj.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. i. 328 The Eusofzyes are a very numerous tribe.

1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 57 And after—ask the Yusufzaies What comes of all our 'ologies.

1899 Dict. Pathan Tribes 234/1 Yusufzai (73,000), a great group of Pathan tribes which includes those of the Black Mountain, the Bunerwals, the Swatis, the people of Dir and the Panjkora valley, and the inhabitants of the Yusufzai plain in British territory.

1940 P. Sykes Hist. Afghanistan I. xix. 290 In the autumn of that same year Babur..decided on an expedition against the Yusufzais.

1958 O. Caroe Pathans i. 14 A Yusufzai or a Khalil..if he is asked who he is, will always reply, ‘I am an Afghan.’

1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xi. 170 The men of his own troop were drawn largely from the Border tribes: Yusafzai, Orakzai and Khattak.

1838 in Parl. Papers 1839 XL. 29 Shah Shooja-ool-Moolk disclaims all title..to..Peshaur, with the Eusefzye territory.

1857 S. Cotton Nine Years on North-West Frontier (1868) ix. 220 The column placed under his orders on the Euzofzaie Border.

1888 R. Kipling Miss Youghal's Sais in Plain Tales from Hills 24 He..had taken a Eusufzai horse-thief alone.

1900 R. Warburton Eighteen Years in Khyber v. 52 Mukarrub Khan of Panjtar..was another pleasing character connected with Yusufzai politics.

1953 O. Caroe Soviet Empire v. 86 Another Yusufzai maira.

1983 J. C. Griffiths Queen of Spades ii. 26 Hussein Rahman, a Yusufzai Pathan.