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Тарас
“to trouble, to agitate”
Тарас (Tarás) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Taras.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Тарас goes back to Ancient Greek ταράσσω, meaning “to trouble, to agitate.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Ταράσιος, from Ancient Greek ταράσσω (“to trouble, to agitate”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Тарас’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Тарас can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tarás. In Ukrainian usage, Тарас as a surname has a transliteration in Taras.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Тарас
- Taras ShevchenkoUkrainian poet and artist (1814–1861)
- Taras StepanenkoUkrainian footballer (born 1989)
- Taras MykhalykUkrainian footballerborn 1983
- Taras KompanichenkoUkrainian kobzar, badurist, lirnyk, and composerborn 1969
- Taras RomanczukPolish-Ukrainian association football playerborn 1991
- Taras ProkhaskoUkrainian/writer/essayist/journalistborn 1968
- Taras ShelestyukAmateur World Champion, Ukrainian Boxerborn 1985
- Taras MishchukUkrainian canoeistborn 1995
- Taras BurlakRussian footballerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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