Given name & surname · also Turkish
Şemsettin
“sun of the religion”
Şemsettin is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Şemsettin goes back to Arabic شَمْس الدِّين, meaning “sun of the religion.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Şemsettin comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish شمس الدین (şems ed-din), from Arabic شَمْس الدِّين (“sun of the religion”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Şemsettin’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Şemsettin continues an earlier form in شمس الدین.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Şemsettin
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