Given name · Serbian · Serbo-Croatian
Јусуф
“to add”
Јусуф (Jùsuf) is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Serbian and Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jùsuf.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Јусуф goes back to Biblical Hebrew הוֹסִיף (hosíf), meaning “to add.”
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Where it comes from
Јусуф comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
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How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish یوسف (yusuf), from Arabic يُوسُف, from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yōsép), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹסִיף (hosíf, “to add”), from Biblical Hebrew י־ס־ף.
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Јусуф’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Јусуф can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jùsuf.
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Spellings & scripts 1
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