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Иштван
“circle; wreath, crown”
Иштван (Ȉštvān) is a masculine given name from Hungarian. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Russian and Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ȉštvān.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Иштван goes back to Latin Stephanus, meaning “circle; wreath, crown.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Иштван developed from István.
Иштван’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Иштван developed from the Hungarian form István. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Иштван can be written in the Roman alphabet as Ȉštvān. In Russian usage, Иштван has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form István.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
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