Gender | Masculine |
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Language(s) | Turkish |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Turkish |
Word/name | "bahadır" |
Derivation | "bahadır" |
Meaning | "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", "gallant" |
Other names | |
Cognate(s) | Mete, Metehan |
See also | Baghatur |
Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase.
Related names
Bahadır is the modern version of "Baghatur".
On the other hand, Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" and is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people. Moreover, Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Batur, and as in other cognate forms.
Equivalents
- Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر)
- Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ)
- Persian: Bahadur (بهادر)
- Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر)
- Turkmen: Batyr
Other Relations
- History: Modu (Possibly a Middle Chinese form (冒頓) of the old Turkic honorific title "bagatur".)
- Turkish: Mete (Turkish form of Modu.)
- Caucasian Mythology: Batraz (Possibly from Turkic "bagatur". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian mythology.)
- Ossetian: Batraz (Батырадз)
Notable people with the name
Given name
- Bahadır Akkuzu (1955–2009), Turkish musician
- Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), Turkish archaeologist
- Bahadır Demir (1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat
- Bahadır Gökay (born 1955), Turkish painter
Surname
- Abulghazi Bahadur, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva
- Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper
- Turgay Bahadır (born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer