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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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