Given name · also Turkish
Şerife
“the highborn, noble, honourable”
Şerife is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Şerife goes back to Arabic شَرِيفة, meaning “the highborn, noble, honourable.”
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Where it comes from
Şerife comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish شریفه (Şerife), from Arabic شَرِيفة (“the highborn, noble, honourable”); its root is Arabic ش ر ف.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Şerife’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Şerife shares a linguistic root with SHERIFE.
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 Şerife
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