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Turkish boys names
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11 Feb 2007 Sun 09:36 pm |
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Quoting kai: Quoting longinotti1: Quoting caliptrix: Quoting gezbelle: ...ismail is arabic in origin, but i do know it is used in turkey as a boy's name...
...does this count as a turkish boys name? or is it not turkish enough?? |
Yes, it is Turkish. |
You may know Turkish language but not history!
"The Koran says that Abraham took his elder son, Ishmael, to be sacrificed"
This event occured thousands of years before the Turks "encountered" arabs. |
I don't mean to take sides but as far as I am aware Ismail was originally Arabic ....إسماعيل but either way, I'm not bothered...I have a Turkish friend named Ismail too  It's a common name in Turkey, and a nice one too!
That's why I said about Mustafa too, because I have two friends who are named Mustafa - one who is Arabic and the other Turkish |
You say "encountered". I don't know if that has a big effect for you, but İsmail is a Turkish name now. You cannot say "origins are different, so it is not Turkish". I remember this discuss many times maden, I will just give a few names:
Osman, Ömer, Ahmet, Mehmet, Muhammet, İsmail, İbrahim, İshak, Yusuf, Yakup, Abdullah, Mustafa, Tarık, Mahmut, Ayşe, Fatma, Elif, Esra, Büşra, Ali, Kadir, Yasin, Adem, Bekir, Hatice, Musa, İsa, Tuba, Nur, Kübra...
They are all Arabic names, and you can't say that they are not Turkish. You can't categorize them like that...
By the way, do you think that Abraham is not Arabic and İbrahim is Arabic? They are names of prophets. They refer on the same person. So, does it matter that it is Arabic or Latin?
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11 Feb 2007 Sun 10:11 pm |
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Erm... if Ishmail/Ismael (or how you write it) comes from Abrahamic time, isn't it then a Jewish/Hebrew/Aramese name?
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12 Feb 2007 Mon 12:07 am |
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I love the name Ibrahim although i could be a little bias because the love of my life is called that!
Apart from that name i also love the names tuncay,ümit and Emre.
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12 Feb 2007 Mon 12:41 am |
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i like the name "FATIH" for aboy MEANS THE CONQUER like the sultan "MOHAMET ALFATIH".
and also "AHMET" MEANS AHMED
tell me yor opinion.
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12 Feb 2007 Mon 04:23 pm |
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yea i love the name fatih too.
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 02:07 am |
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caliptrix
Quote: have you ever seen anyone who has this name? |
yes, a few, why?
p.s how the hec do I do that quote thing?? :-S
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 02:33 am |
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Quoting Trudy: Erm... if Ishmail/Ismael (or how you write it) comes from Abrahamic time, isn't it then a Jewish/Hebrew/Aramese name? |
If you check the modern languages in European countries you will see many words (including names)imported from old latin and Grek languages. They have been used by different nations for ages. Today, nobody thinks that 'Mariam' is not an English name even though it's origin is not English.
The fact that, people import a word from a foreign language then absorb it and then it becomes their own words. After that, you can talk about that word's origin, but you can not talk about what language does it belong to today.
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 11:03 am |
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Quoting xkirstyx: caliptrix
Quote: have you ever seen anyone who has this name? |
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Because I have never seen.
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 11:14 am |
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Hi all ismail is used as boys name in turkey .
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 12:24 pm |
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My other half likes Arda, id never even heard it till he mentioned it a few months back. It's grown on em but i do really like murat and hassan, girls names are mcuh easier
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15 Feb 2007 Thu 01:49 pm |
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my sisters just named her turkish son sabri
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