Given name & surname · also Turkish
Şakir
“thankful”
Şakir is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Şakir goes back to Arabic شاكِر, meaning “thankful.”
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Where it comes from
Şakir comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
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How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish شاكر (Şâkir), from Arabic شاكِر (“thankful”); its root is Arabic ش ك ر.
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Şakir’s family of names
Şakir is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Шакир.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Şakir
- ŞakiroTurkish country music singer of Kurdish ancestry (1936–1996)
- Şakir BilginTurkish writer (born 1951)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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