Given name · Macedonian
Сулејман
Сулејман (Sulejman) is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Macedonian.
MacedonianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Sulejman.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Сулејман comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish سلیمان (Süleyman), from Arabic سُلَيْمَان, from Classical Syriac ܫܠܹܝܡܘܿܢ (š'lêmōn), from Koine Greek Σολομών, from Biblical Hebrew שְׁלֹמֹה (šĕlōmōʰ).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Сулејман’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Сулејман shares an earlier linguistic root with Соломон. In Macedonian usage, Сулејман can be written in the Roman alphabet as SULEJMAN. In Macedonian usage, Сулејман was borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish form سلیمان.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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