fauji
Fauji is a term used in Urdu and Hindi to denote a soldier or member of the armed forces. The word comes from fauj, meaning army, with the adjectival suffix -i forming “fauji” to describe someone belonging to the military. In India and Pakistan, fauji is used in both formal and informal contexts to refer to military personnel, and it appears frequently in journalism, film, and popular culture as a shorthand for military life.
In popular culture, Fauji is the title of an Indian television series that aired on Doordarshan in
In Pakistan, the Fauji Foundation is a welfare trust established by the Pakistan Army to provide social
Overall, the term Fauji functions as a broadly recognized label for military personnel in South Asia and