Peoples names in Turkish

Babrew


Joined: 15/09/2010
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Message Posted:
08/01/2011 01:18

Im not being rude in any way but I do have to titter when Ive learnt girls names such as Yeter and Sosyal...meaning Enough and Social. How can one name their kids with these meanings. Anyone know any other ha ha names.

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 02:01

Hollywood stars and singers etc name their kids silly names aswell..... Almost as daft in a way as what you mentioned.



Have you ever seen the comedy 'Father Ted'? One of the other fathers had a brick he loved. Then he disliked it and said feck off brick. (Mods, before you admonish me, it was on TV and I quoted father Jack correctly) I think certain people in certain places of the UK might call their son Brick aka Brick sh*t house.

cyprusjoker


Joined: 29/08/2009
Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 05:40

I heard of someone in Peckham naming there daughter "NOKIA" can you believe it

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 07:18

Lucky they didn't have a Blackberry then...

BoTanica


Joined: 22/12/2009
Posts: 714

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 10:01

One of the strangest names I find is Savaş (war). But then again my (real) name means Reaper, but I am not grim, and neither do I own a farm!!

AnthonySmith


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 455

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 10:08

I met a chap recently from Kibris newspaper called Serhat Incirli, which I believe means Warrior Fig in rough translation.

chrisieh1


Joined: 13/04/2009
Posts: 246

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 11:22

One time when my Mum was out she heard someone calling their daughter, Asda !!!

Babrew


Joined: 15/09/2010
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 16:25

When I visited turkey there was town called Murder Village but cant remember the name in Turkish.

Denny


Joined: 09/12/2010
Posts: 261

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 16:41

Anthony msg 6,



Serhat's an old friend of mine. He explained the first name meant "border". There's a village on the Nicosia-Morphou road renamed with the same handle. It's very close to the CFL so that makes sense.

Most expats don't know that after the 1974 occupation, in a move that some likened to Pol Pot's Year Zero, the Turkish authorities "encouraged" all TCs to take new names. Hence you now have guys like Kyrenia's Ali Teknical (guess what his job involves), various heroic-sounding Volkans and so on.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 19:26

Denny;

Up until after the war in 74 we used our father's name as a second name.Surnames only came in after.....



My grandad is from Luricina,now called AKINCILAR(frontiers).My grandad took the surname of AKINCI(frontier)...hence my surname today.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 19:59

i Met a beautiful turkis cypriot customer the othe night here name was Perde, I think thats the spelling, she told me it means silk. She was as lovely as silk x

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
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Message Posted:
08/01/2011 21:01

I thoght silk was Ipek Perde also means curtains so i suppose they could be made of silk.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 21:03

Ipek is silk, Perde is curtain... did you tell her to pull herself together?

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 21:35

A friend of mine with surname Cart, called thier son Orson..................No word of a lie...........

Snaefell



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 266

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 21:45

Two boys at the same school as my son were called Argon and Zuton. Quite a concindence that twenty years later some of his best friends in Liverpool called their band The Zutons!

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 21:46

Pug I have have m,isunderstood all I remember was silk, and she looked every inich of it,.She was really beautiful. I should have known as we bought our curtains from Ipec Perde. To me she will always be SILK xx What do you think they will make of Elizabeth xxx Thats why Im a flower. However that is another story. Guido called me Elizabetha when we met. my favourite flower is the lily espically a trumpet lily. Every saturday we went to the fruit and flower market and bought the biggest bunch. One day was a message L.I.L.Y. Only my family called me lilli , I asked him why, well wait for the itilian romantic answer. Liz. I . Love . You, hence Lilli xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
08/01/2011 22:41

I knew someone with the surname Case.......and named their son Ed!!!!

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 01:40

Yorgoozlu, Akincilar are the most forward fighters (raiders) in the army in war, normally on horseback. Who told you it means frontier?

I remember in early sixties one of our couch drivers got kicked the sh*t out of by the GC police at Eglence because he refused to translate the meaning to him knowing what would happen afterwards. It happened anyway and the guy spent a week in hospital.

Most Turkish names mean something. But Perde is definately not silk, its curtain.

I guess Perdev then must have lived in Russia for a while.

Traveller0392


Joined: 21/03/2008
Posts: 186

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 03:09

MP Ed Balls . . . My old headmaster. . Keith Nutter. . . Although i was born on St Andrews day, parents called me Ian. . . Never thought it to be a funny name until i tried to explain to someone in Turkish what it meant. . . ;)

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 03:15

Notwithstanding, the initial question came from someone called LAYCOCK (snigger..........) I LOVE the Turkish names, Pembe, and Emine - so beautiful........Pembe is pink I believe, Emine - I don't know, I just think it sounds lovely......

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 03:26

Emin means sure and usually a male name with an e at the end is used to ceate the female name. Like in Zeki and Zekiye or Ali and Aliye etc.



I met a Greek lady recently who's surname was Kahramanoglu. I asked her if she knew what she ment and she did not have a clue. When I explained that it was Turkish and what it meant it came as quite a shock.

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 15:10

I love the fact the names have a meaning in Turkish and some of them are so beautiful but I must admit to the funniest one being 'Ufuk'.



Thankfully the guy who had it had a really good sense of humour and a good understanding of english and laughed it off as he was well aware of it's implication in the english language.



I wish I knew what it meant though, anyone any idea's?

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 15:14

Shafak is even better. I used to have a friend at school called Ufuk, what's wrong with it? lol

YFred


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Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 15:16

I should have said Ufuk means Horizon, scope etc

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 17:14

Hade reh YFred,are we going to give each other language lessons now?



"most forward fighters (raiders"..........are they not the ones in front?Clearing the way for the rest?.....hence.......frontier!

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 18:49

Mess. 24 When I first came to teach in Istanbul the owner's wife had that name, and she

had changed it from her German name when she married him which also began with U.

My Austrian colleagues and I had a few sniggers about that, and wondered how she could have done it.

I was told my own name was Turkish, and told them it was of ancient Greek origin. But it has the same

meaning in both languages, i.e. "green shoot" (phyl =green lis= shoot) or Filiz in Turkish.

Traveller0392


Joined: 21/03/2008
Posts: 186

Message Posted:
09/01/2011 19:46

. . . Continuing the theme of funny english names. . . I remember in the local paper under the list for newly married couples . . . It stated. . . Mrs Jones (nee Tremble). . . .

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 18:49

My favourate Turkish name is Oral.

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 19:31

I like Menekse - violet, and Gulay - rosemoon. Umit is for boys or girls and means 'Hope' which is a lovely name.

Denny


Joined: 09/12/2010
Posts: 261

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 19:50

Eyup's a pretty good name for visting parts of northern England.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
14/01/2011 05:37

Love message 27 - reminds me of Ben Dover.......

YFred


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Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
14/01/2011 14:39

What about Wayne Kerr?

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
14/01/2011 14:45

Bedrettin isn't good.

Pippie


Joined: 02/12/2009
Posts: 1288

Message Posted:
14/01/2011 15:46

Lilli, that's a beautiful story and I'm sure one you'll be talking about for years to come.



Not quite a strange sounding name but I have a funny tale ... when we moved in to our house our Turkish Cypriot neighbour must have heard us sitting out on the patio during the summer talking to the canary (Georgie!). Hubby introduced me to him when we first called around to his house but to this day he insists on calling me Georgia. I haven't the heart to correct him and I actually answer to it now!

goldheart666


Joined: 04/12/2010
Posts: 52

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 08:27

Do you have any idea what cypriots think about english,german,french names etc.?Do you think it is so important?

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 09:48

Richard=Dick

William=Bill

Robert=Bob

Charlie=Chaz

soyelcin


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 91

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 11:51

we named our daughter Sheniz meaning happy.....i hope she always is

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 16:50

Ah, Yorgozlu



You have just reminded me of a guy that used to come selling to me many years ago, his name was Richard Whatsize and when he first introduces himself he always says ' My name is Richard and not Dick!'

susief


Joined: 06/11/2008
Posts: 529

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 17:12

I used to work with a guy whose birth name was Richard but who known to everyone as Dick Tingle

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 17:20

MsGarnet msg 31....



'Ben Dover' AKA Simon Lindsay Honey is married to Linzi Drew and their son is Lindzi Tyger Drew Honey who acts under the name Tyger Drew-Honey and stars in the very successful BBC comedy series 'Outnumbered'.



If you haven't seen it you should make a point of doing so, it is simply British TV at its best.

LeYLeY



Joined: 12/09/2010
Posts: 221

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 17:58

my old science teacher was called Rose Patel

LeYLeY



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Posts: 221

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 18:00

my old science teacher was called Rose Patel

LeYLeY



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Posts: 221

Message Posted:
25/01/2011 18:03

my old science teacher was called Rose Patel