Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'Z'


Zaide:

Growing, increasing

Zehra:

Beautiful, Nickname of the Prophet Muhammed's (S.A.W) daughter Fatma

Zeliha(Züleyha):

Walking fast

Zemzem:

The sweet, sweet water of Paradise

Zeren:

Quick to comprehend, quick on the uptake, intelligent understanding, a type of flower

Zergül:

Rose valuable like gold

Zernişan:

Processing, ornamental, ornament

Zevra:

theTigris (river)

Zeycan:

Sincerely, sincere, approachable (friendly, lovable, warm-hearted)

Zeynep:

Name of the daughter of Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W and PBUH)

Zeyno:

A nickname or a short version of 'Zeynep'

Zinnur:

Illuminated, light

Zuhal or Zühal:

Saturn

Züheyr:

Small flower

Zühre:

The planet Venus or Shepherd star

Zümrüt:

A valuable ornamental rock, emerald (a gemstone)

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'Y'


Yağmur:

Rain

Yahçe:

Dew

Yakut:

Ruby

Yasemin:

Name of a flower (Jasmine)

Yegane:

Single, no duplicates, unique

Yelda:

Long and black

Yeliz:

Related about wind

Yeşim:

A type of stone (jade)

Yıldız:

Star(s) in the sky

Yonca:

(dry) feed (for animals); fodder 'crop', (alfalfa?)

Yümna:

Right side
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'V'


Vahide:

Unique, exclusive

Vasfiye:

Qualified or of high quality

Verda:

Rose

Vurud:

Roses

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'Ü'


Üçgül:

Clover

Ülke:

Country

Ümit:

Hope

Ünsal:

Let her name be heard, regarding about fame
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'U'


Uğur:

Goodness, lucky, luck, fortune

Ulviye:

High, lofty

Umut:

Hope

Uzay:

Space
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'T'


Tahire:

Clean, pure

Tâlibe:

Scholar girl

Tamay:

Full moon

Tan:

Dawn, daybreak

Tanay:

Dawn with moon

Tansel:

Dawn and torrent, a flood of morning light

Tanseli:

the flood of morning light

Tansu:

The light of the dawn that reflects against the water

Tanyel:

The breezy wind at the time of dawn

Tanyeri:

The place where the sun's light squeezes in out into the atmosphere, location of where dawn appears (arises from)

Tara:

Star

Tayyibe:

Good, nice, pleasant, agreeable

Tekgül:

A Single rose, An unique rose

Tolunay:

Beautiful full moon

Tomurcuk:

The bud of a plant

Toprak:

Soil. Earth, ground, clay, land, country, territory

Tuba:

A tree in heaven, healthy, beauty, blessedness, goodness

Tuğba:

A tree in heaven, healthy, beauty, goodness

Tuğçe:

Small horsetail (attached to a standard as a sign of rank) or a brigadier

Tumay:

Quiet, calm, serene

Tuna:

Very, abundant, splendent

Tutkun:

Has given her heart to, passionately in love (with)

Tünay:

Night and moon

Türkân:

Queen, beautiful lady

Tüzün:

Soft or sweet-natured calm, of good family, noble

Tüzüner:

Soft sweet-natured, orderly person

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'Ş'



Şadan:

Elated

Şayeste:

Befitting, suitable; appropriate

Şebnem:

Dew

Şefika:

Gentle, tenderhearted, compassionate, affectionate

Şekibe:

Patience, endurance, durability

Şelale:

Waterfall

Şener:

Happy; merry person

Şengün:

Happy days

Şenkal:

Stay happy and cheerful

Şenol:

Merry, cheerful, be happy

Şensu:

Merry happy water

Şevval:

The tenth month of the Arabic lunar calendar first three days are Ramadan Holiday

Şeyma:

The name of the Foster sister of Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W)

Şükran:

Gratitude

Şükriye:

Gratitude

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'S'


Sabah:

Morning

Sabiha:

Beautiful, cute, nice

Sabriye:

Patience, patient

Sacide:

Prostrating (to God)

Safire:

Thin, beautiful voice (sound)

Safiye:

Pure or selected

Salkım:

Bunch (of grapes, dates). 2. Cluster, bunch (of pendent flowers); raceme

Samiha:

Generous, open-handed

Seçkin:

Select, choice; distinguished

Seda:

Sound, voice

Seden:

Awake, watchful, eyes open

Sel:

Torrent, swift flood of water that carries whatever comes into its path like rain or melted snow

Selen:

Sound, news, information

Selin:

Joy

Selvi:

The summer leaves that do not drop in the winter, a type of thin long tree, cypress (A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability)

Sema:

Sky

Semiha:

Open-handed, generous

Serin:

Between warm and cold, cool, chilly; fresh

Serpil:

Perfuse, be sprinkled, be scattered, open out; blossom out

Sevde:

Love

Sevgi:

Love

Sevi:

Passionate love, love

Sevim:

Loveable

Sevinç:

Joy, delight, gladness

Sezen:

To understand (something) intuitively, understading intuitively, sense, feel, perceive, discern

Sezgi:

Intuition

Sezgin:

To be Sezgi person

Sezin:

See 'Sezen'

Simge:

Sign, symbol

Sonay:

last month of the Year

Songül:

(Can be used for naming a last child) last rose(s)

Suna:

A type of "wild" ducks, tall, beautiful

Süheyla:

Soft-tempered (sweet-tempered, sweet natured), calm

Sümeyya:

The first lady who had obtained shahadat in Islam

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'R'


Rabia:

Spring, Springtime

Radife:

A star located near another star

Rahşan:

Bright, shining

Rana:

To gaze, to look and/or beautiful, nice-looking

Raşide:

Intelligient, to guide, one who goes to the right path

Refia:

Lofty, high

Refika:

Woman, wife or one of a pair, female friend

Remziye:

Related about signs

Reyhan:

A nice fragrant ornamental plant

Rezzan:

Serious, serious-minded

Ruhsar:

Cheeks, face, beautiful face
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'P'


Pakize:

Clean; of repute, pure, sinless, spotless

Papatya:

Name of a flower (daisy)

Parla:

(be) bright; shiny

Pervin:

A star

Pırnal:

Tree species

Piruze:

A valuable piece of blue stone

Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'Ö'


Özge:

Friendly (genial, companionable)

Özlem:

Related about desire, longing
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'O'


Olgun:

Knowledge, tolerance, good manners, well-mannered and tolerant person

Orkide:

A valuable ornamental plant, an orchid

Oya:

Made with fine lace knitting needle or bodkin (hairpin)
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'N'


Nabiye:

One who gives the news

Nadide:

Very valuable

Nadire:

Rare, unique, seldom found

Nafia:

Useful, healing, good, beneficial

Nazife:

Elegant, fashionably (stylishly) dressed, chic

Nebahat:

Honor, famous women

Nebile:

Of high merit, virtue, intelligent, knowledgeable, well-informed, learned

Necibe:

A clean good family or ancestors included, good-natured, good morals

Necla:

Girl child, race, generation

Necmiye:

Regarding about stars

Nefise:

Very likeable, nice, pleasant

Nergis:

Narcissus (a type of flower)

Neriman:

Brave, courageous, heroic, heroine

Nermin:

Soft, gentle, polite

Nesime:

Wind, breeze, good-natured or good character

Nesli:

Generation, descent, race and maybe of good family, noble

Nesligül:

Descendants or generations of roses

Neslihan:

Khan descendants (Generations), dominating with love

Neslinur:

Coming from the descendants of the holy light

Nesrin:

A type of flower

Neşe:

Happiness, joy

Nevin:

New, brand new

Nezafet:

Brightness or purity of heart, cleanliness

Nigar:

Picture, embroidery

Nihal:

Dear, beloved, fresh, thin and smooth or well-arranged and orderly body

Nilgün:

Dark blue, indigo-coloured

Nilüfer:

Name of a water plant, a water plant (water lily)

Nimet:

Nimet something that is necessary like people having the necessity to eat and drink in order to survive or something

Nuhbe:

The best of everything

Nur:

Light, to illuminate and its metaphoric meaning could be, and it probably is, to clarify, explain, to enlighten

Nural:

Holy light

Nuran:

Regards to light, having (a holy) light or so, nurlu ('lighted up')

Nuray:

The Beaming of light, luminous, Person 'lighted up' just like the moon

Nurinisa:

Nurlu women

Nuriye:

Radiant, brilliant
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'M'


Macide:

One with good morals

Mahbube:

Beloved, lovable

Mahfuze:

The protected one, Protected, Sheltered

Mahire:

Resourceful (skillful) women

Mahlika:

Face beautiful as the moon

Mahperi:

Beautiful

Mahpeyker:

Moon-face, face like the bright light of the moon or the moon itself

Mahsune:

Surrounded, besieged, wrapped

Maide:

Banquet, the food found on top of the dinner feast table of the banquet

Makbule:

Received, will be accepted, accepted, to be liked

Maksude:

To wish (for), desire

Manolya:

A type of flower, magnolia

Maral:

Female gazelle

Mebrure:

Good, beneficial, be approved of, liked, useful

Medide:

Very long-lasting

Mediha:

Praised, liked, admired, loved women

Mehlika:

Beautiful as the moon

Mehpare:

Very nice pieces of the moon, beautiful as the pieces of it (the moon)_

Mehtab:

Moonlight

Melahat:

Beauty, beauty of the face

Melda:

Fresh, young and gentle

Melek:

Angel

Meliha:

Fine, beautiful, cute and sweet

Melike:

Queen, sovereign , ruler

Melis:

Honey, honey bee

Meltem:

Summer, seasonal wind blowing from land to sea

Meral(maral):

A female deer

Merve:

A name of a mountain or a hill in Mekke

Meryem:

Turkish form of 'Mary'. Also it is the name of the mother of Isa (Jesus) (A.S)

Mesrure:

Joyful, merry, happy women

Mevhibe:

Allah's (cc) tax, generous gift, gift, benevolence

Mihriban:

Genial. Suave, soft and sweet-natured

Mualla:

Position or office and rank being high, high, lofty

Muazzez:

Precious, valuable, honorable

Muhlise:

Sincerely or sincere, being sincere, behaving sincerely

Mutiye:

Subservient (obedience, to obey)

Müberra:

In the clear; innocent; blameless; above suspicion or has been cleaned

Mübeyyen:

To come out to the open space, explained, been announced, disclosed

Mücella:

Bright, polished

Müfide:

Useful, will be useful and benefit work

Müge:

Name of a flower, lily, lily of the valley

Müjgan:

Lash

Mükrime:

Offering or giving (food, drink, etc.), treating (someone) very hospitably, great hospitality

Münevver:

Illuminated, bright light, well-informed, cultured, open-minded people or scholar as well

Münibe:

Has turned to God (Allah), faced towards Allah, pure, sincere

Mürevva:

Good thinking, dealing with mind (idea, thought)

Müzeyyen:

Decorated, adorned
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'L'


Lacerem:

Certainly, that's how it is, certain, sure, without a doubt

Lale:

Tulip

Laleruh:

Her cheeks are like tulips

Lalezar:

Tulip garden

Lanazir:

Unique, matchless

Lane:

Home, nest

Latife:

Soft, pleasant, beautiful, polite, good words that makes a person laugh, jokes

Lebibe:

Intelligent, understanding

Leman:

Gleam; flash, glitter; sparkle, shining

Lemide:

Shiny, bright, glimmery, to gleam

Lemiye:

To gleam, glimmery

Letafet:

Beauty, politeness

Leyla:

Born at night, dark beauty, hair colour black like the night. Very dark and long nights

Leylagül:

Black dark rose

Lütfiye:

Good and nice behaving woman, delicate, graceful, openhandedness, generousness
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'K'


Kader:

One's fate, destiny

Kadife:

A type of cloth, fabric or material, velvet

Kadriye:

Valuable. Girl born on kadir gecesi "the Night of Power" which is the twenty-seventh of Ramazan, when the Koran was revealed

Kafiye:

Rhyme, like in a poem or something

Kamelya:

A type of flower, Camellia

Kamile:

Matured, well-behaved

Kardide:

Awake, vigilant, experienced

Karmen:

Bright, red colour

Katre:

Drrip

Kaygas:

Miracle

Kebire:

Mature, fully developed; adult, grown-up, large, great

Kelibek:

Butterfly

Kerime:

Daughter, tolerance, domestic(ated), tame(d), generous

Keriman:

Generous

Keyyise:

Smart, intelligent, understanding, fine elegant and/or slim (slender), polite

Kısmet:

(one's) lot, (one's) share, (one's) allotted portion, gain; earnings; profit; winnings, fate (destiny) of fortune

Kumru:

A bird, dove

Kutsal:

Holy

Kübra:

Very large, very big, great, grand, lofty
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'J'


Jale:

Dew, frost, water drops

Jaledar:

Dew fell on

Jalenur:

Dew, frost, shining

Janset:

Sunrise (Circassian name)

Jasmin:

Jasmine

Jengar:

Meteorite

Julide:

Mixed, scattered hair

Jülide:

Mixed, scattered, depth
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'İ'


İba:

Courtesy

İdal:

Victory

İffet:

Chastity

İhsan:

Goodness, donation

İkbal:

Openness of fortune (luck), work that goes right

İkrime:

Kindness, beneficence

İlbike:

Distinguished, estimable and a respected woman

İlbüke:

Select, a distinguished lady

İldem:

Repentant

İlkbal:

First-born daughter

İman(İmani):

Faith, belief

İncila:

Brightness, light

İpek:

A type of cloth (fabric, material), silk. This name is probably more commonly used as a surname.

İrem:

A name of a Garden in Heaven

İrmegân:

Teaching (someone) good manners; disciplining, happiness

İzem:

Bigness, largeness, greatness
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'I'


Iğıl:

Silent, slow, calm water flow

Ihlamur:

Linden tree

Irem:

Name of a garden in Heaven

Irmak:

The largest stream, river

Işıl:

Gleam; glitter; glisten; sparkle, bright, light

Itır:

Well, a nice-smelling plant
Author: Ali
•Sunday, March 22, 2009
Turkish girl names, with meanings, starting with 'H'


Habibe:

Dear, beloved friend

Hacer:

Rock, stone, fragment (pieces) of huge rocks

Hafize:

Hafiz, one who knows the Qur'an (Koran) by heart

Hale:

Moon and the Sun light that appears around the circlet

Halide:

Seems younger from her age or late aging, continual, continuous

Halime:

Calm, quiet, soft-natured, sweet-natured

Halise:

Pure

Hamide:

Giving thanks to Allah, praising God

Hamiyet:

Virtue, humanity, patriotism

Handan:

Happy, lovable, lovely, cheerful

Hande:

Smile, laughter

Handegül:

Roses bloom

Hanife:

With strong ties to the religion (Islam).Woman filled with pride. Woman believing in the oneness of God (Allah)

Hasibe:

Open-handed, generous, noble, reputable women

Hatice:

Early born girl

Havva:

Turkish name form of 'Eve'. The wife of Prophet Adam (A.S).

Hayat:

Life

Hayriye:

Goodness, beneficial, auspicious

Hayrünissa:

Similiar to 'Hayriye'

Hazal:

Dry and deciduous (falling) tree leaves

Hazan:

Autumn

Hesna:

Lady, madam, ma'am, nice, beautiful woman

Hidayet:

Finding the right path with Allah's (God's) inspiration

Hilal:

Crescent

Hubter:

very beautiful, the most beautiful

Huceste:

lucky, of good omen, auspicious

Hulkiye:

Good morals

Hunde:

Quiet

Huri:

Daughter of Heaven, Angel

Huriye:

Angel

Hurrem:

Being jubilant, joyful, giving out pleasantness to people

Hurşide:

Sun

Hüsna:

Beautiful, beauty

Hüsniye:

Very beautiful woman

Hüsnüye:

Beauty

Hüveyda:

Evident, obvious, manifest