Given name & surname

Yıldız

“star”

Yıldız is a feminine given name. It is used in Turkish.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Yıldız goes back to Turkish Yıldız, meaning “star.”

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Where it comes from

Yıldız comes from Turkish.

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How it developed

From Turkish Yıldız.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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