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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 30, 2010 19:09:22 GMT -5
I love Turkish names, they are just so diverse.
My names pure modern Turkish, whereas my mums is from the Kuran, my dad is not religious but Arabic and my sisters name is Persian. LOL nevertheless all considered Turkish somehow.
here are some names and meanings I like.
Melis - Honey
Azra - untouched pure - sand never set foot on etc..
Alara - Turkish goddess
Ecem - Queen (E-jem)
Peri - Fairy
Ilayda - Water fairy
Tuana - first drop of water from heaven to earth
Aleyna - a good person of God
All girls names.
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 30, 2010 19:11:52 GMT -5
Şeyda - (Sheyda) - crazy in Love - extremely passionate LOL
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Post by hellboy87 on Jan 30, 2010 19:29:42 GMT -5
dy,many non Turks find Turkish names weird you know.I do too.They sound weird.
I used to work in the customer service industry and once I needed a senior to handle my case,and thecustomer was a Turkish Australian,when I told her the name she was like What kind of name is that?! I said Turkish....Turkish.....
Intrestingly,when the guy was complaining madly at me,I asked him I wanted to clarify his name,I did and I asked is that Turkish? And he calmed down abit and said yes.
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Btw,Turks,during the Ottoman Empire had mostly Muslim names,I think
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 30, 2010 19:37:45 GMT -5
Yes because most Turkish names (modern and ancient) sound nothing like any names around them. they are unique to the Turks The Ottomans were a muslim empire and they did have Muslim names....
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Post by Patrinos on Jan 31, 2010 13:51:37 GMT -5
meli is the honey in Greek, since mycenean times. I have in mind turkish female names ending in -e , Fatime, Aishe, etc " Hestike i Fatime sto Yeni djami"... ;D
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 31, 2010 13:53:34 GMT -5
Thats Arabic not Turkish fatima/ Fatime/ Fadna/ Fadima etc....in Turkish would be Fatma or Fadime Its Melis not Meli
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 31, 2010 13:54:27 GMT -5
We also have a name Melih.. means nice sweet loveable. (male)
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Post by todhrimencuri on Jan 31, 2010 19:43:37 GMT -5
Turkish seems to have undergone the same kind of name nationalization that Albanians underwent. Many Turkish names have some word connection now in order to de-Islamnize the nomenclature.
Emre seems to be one of the most common Turkish names I run across. Bengi(su) is one I run across for girls. Others Ive run across are Umut, Okan, Levent and Alp.
Personally, I think these sound a lot better than having a family of Hysen, Mehmet, Recep, or, to go Christian, Kristo, Anastas, Sotir... Names that have nothing but BS religious tradition.
And Melis is Greek, definitely. In English a close derivative, Melissa, from Bee (Melitta). In Alb we say mjalt, a closely derived word.
Also Aleyna is probably from Arabic. Particularly because of the Ale, it sounds like a typical Arabic morphism of Ilah/ileh/Allah (god)
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Jan 31, 2010 19:56:47 GMT -5
Turkish names have trends, whichever names are popular are the ones that a generation are named.
For instance my cousin named her kids - Defne Ida and Ali Cinar - 2 names are the trend.
The only types that seem to be constant are the kans,(khan) and the mehmet/ali etc types. The traditional name will be followed by a modern new one. there are so many new names to choose from, Talya, Eda, Ecemnur, Nisan, Eylul etc
eg: Efekan, Dogukan,
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Post by thracian08 on Feb 1, 2010 13:53:49 GMT -5
I love Turkish names because the pure Turkish ones have meaning - all of them.
For example isik - light
Gulay - rosemoon
Tan - sunrise
Aysegul - ayse and rose
Aydin - knowledgible
Asli - genuine, real
Ender - rare
Onur - honor
Efe - yigit
In the US for example there are lots of names but really no meaning to them.
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Post by Kastorianos on Feb 1, 2010 14:40:21 GMT -5
My last name was endling with -oglu till the Asia Minor catastrophy...I found out lately. The prefix was a Greek Christian name though....my great grandfather changed it into a Greek ending in Greece then....
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Post by thracian08 on Feb 1, 2010 14:49:08 GMT -5
oglu means son of. Some Turkish last names end with it, but most do not.
That's interesting b/c my Greek friend from Turkey has a Greek last name.
I wonder why some Greeks took oglu ending to their last names?
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Post by Patrinos on Feb 1, 2010 16:01:21 GMT -5
oglu means son of. Some Turkish last names end with it, but most do not. That's interesting b/c my Greek friend from Turkey has a Greek last name. I wonder why some Greeks took oglu ending to their last names? The Constantinopolitans because the lived in Turkey until 1955(...) as Turkish citizens after Kemal had to take official surnames according to the new turkish onomatology, which till then didn't use surnames. The majority of the -oglou today in Greece are Polites. But and other Minor Asian Greeks had that suffix with Greek or Turkish prefixes due to the living in a heavily turkish surrounding and environment. You can find for example surnames like Palaiologlou, Komnenoglou, Doukoglou , Aggeloglou etc
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Post by todhrimencuri on Feb 1, 2010 16:15:17 GMT -5
In Albania, many Muslims adopted the Turkish patronymic suffix -oglu, during the late stages of the Ottoman Empire, as -olli. The most famous instance is King Zog, born Ahmet Bej Zogolli.
Other adopted suffixes are for place origin: Skraparliu, Elbasanliu. Mine above, Toskaliku, is a result of that. Literally: "He being from Toskalik(central to southern Albani)".
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Post by Kastorianos on Feb 1, 2010 17:10:19 GMT -5
I guess Greeks who were orthodox but well established (because they were traders etc) in the Ottoman society got them from the Ottoman authorities (I mean the ending). I say that because there were also Greeks who got turkish names that were pretty degrading...in the same village...so why this differentiation? There must have been a reason for that. Others again had normal Greek names...
I always thought -oglou was restricted to Karamanlides Greeks from deep Asia Minor...which was wrong. Half of the Greek families of my village in Asia Minor had this ending...Terzoglou...Vasiloglou...Apostologlou...and many more...I found an old list of all families of the village...pretty interesting research.
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 1, 2010 17:14:33 GMT -5
u r from the black sea
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Post by Kastorianos on Feb 1, 2010 17:17:58 GMT -5
No, Marmara sea...very close to Mudanya. The village is called Gölyazi today...it lies at the Uluabat lake.
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Post by Kastorianos on Feb 1, 2010 17:19:55 GMT -5
now you also understand why they moved to Kastoria...
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 1, 2010 17:48:31 GMT -5
Hmm such a beautiful place. Could you not buy property there? In some way forge a link to your past?
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Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 1, 2010 17:52:29 GMT -5
Just read about some mysterious legend to do with that place, about an old tree.
Although Konya isn't really Marmara it's more landlocked.
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