Given name · also Turkish
Cevat
Cevat is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Original Arabicجواد
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cevat comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Turkish usage, Cevat developed from جواد.
Cevat’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Cevat developed from the Arabic form جواد.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cevat
- Cevat Şakir KabaağaçlıTurkish writer (1886–1973)1890–1973
- Cevat GülerTurkish association football player (born 1959)
- Cevat YerliTurkish-German computer game developerborn 1978
- Cevat Rıfat AtilhanTurkish general and antisemitic author (1892–1967)
- Cevat SeyitTurkish association football player (1906–1945)
- Cevat Abbas GürerTurkish statesperson (1887–1943)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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