Given name · also Turkish
Kâzım
“to suppress (ire, anger)”
Kâzım is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kâzım is a romanization of كاظم. كاظم goes back to a word meaning “to suppress (ire, anger).”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kâzım comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish كاظم (ḱazım), from Arabic كَاظِم; its root is Arabic ك ظ م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kâzım’s family of names
In Ottoman Turkish usage, Kâzım is a Roman-alphabet rendering of كاظم. In Turkish usage, Kâzım continues an earlier form in كاظم.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kâzım
- Kâzım KarabekirTurkish general and statesperson (1882–1948)
- Kâzım KoyuncuTurkish singer (1971–2005)
- Kazım AyvazTurkish wrestler (1938–2020)
- Kâzım ÖzalpTurkish military officer and statesperson (1880–1968)
- Kâzım Orbay3rd Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces from 1944 to 19461886–1964
- Kazım KartalTurkish actor (1936–2003)
- Kazim ÖzTurkish film director and producer (born 1973)
- Kâzım İnançTurkish military officer and statesperson (1880–1938)
- Kâzım SevüktekinTurkish military officer and statesperson (1877–1949)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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