Baloches, as recent immigrants

The names of places afford little information. The Baloches, as recent immigrants

into Mekran and the Sulaimans, have accepted most names as they found them.
The majority seem to be of Indian origin. A few Balochi names are found, such as
Suhraf (‘red water’), Syahaf (‘black water’), Geh (‘good ‘), Nafuskh (‘stepdaughter’),
Chighard (‘acacia’), Dehgwar, Gandakindaf; and names commencing
with the letters ‘

gw’, such as Gwadar, Gwattar, Gwajak, Gwarokh, are probably

of Baloch origin, as ‘gw’ in that language stands for an original ‘v’ or ‘w’, which
in modern Persian becomes ‘b’. The total number of such names is small.