Given name & surname · also Turkish
Kasım
Kasım is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kasım comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
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How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish قاسم (Kâsım), from Arabic قَاسِم; its root is Arabic ق س م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kasım’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Kasım has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form Qasim. In Ukrainian usage, Kasım as a surname is a transliteration of Касим.
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.
People named Kasım
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