Given name & surname · also Turkish
Jahja
Jahja is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jahja comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
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How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish یحیی (Yahyâ), from Arabic يَحْيَى (yaḥyā).
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Jahja’s family of names
Jahja has a conventional equivalent in the English form John. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Jahja was borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish form یحیی.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jahja
- Yahya bey DukagjiniOttoman poet and military figure (1498-1582)
- Jahja LingAmerican conductorborn 1951
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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