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Sami (name)
Sami (), also Samy or Sammy, is a given name and surname of different origins and meanings, most prevalent in the Arab world and Scandinavia. Arabic Sami, Samy, Samee (Arabic: سامي ''samī'') , is an Arabic male given name meaning "elevated (رَفْعَة ''raf‘ah'')" or "sublime (سُمُوّ ''sumū''/ ''sumuw'')", in fact stemmed from the verb ''samā'' (سما) which means "to transcend", where the verb forms the adjective ''Sami'' which means "to be high, elevated, eminent, prominent".Hans Wehr 4th ed., page 503 The female given name, Samiya or Samia (سامِيَة), is formed and stemmed from this name. The name ''Sami'' is often confused with other Arabic male given names, Samee (Arabic for 'one who hears') or ''Samir'', specifically amongst non-native Arabic speakers when used outside of English-speaking countries. Others Sami as a Turkish and Finnish male name derived from the name Samuel, or an American name abbreviated from Samantha or Samuel. Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy
Sammy is a nickname, frequently for people named Samuel, and also an English spelling of the Arabic name Sami. People Music *Sammy Adams (born 1987), American rapper and songwriter * Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), American songwriter * Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990), American singer and actor *Sammy Fain (1902-1984), American composer * Sammy Hagar (born 1947), American rock musician *Sammy Johns (1946–2013), American country singer-songwriter * Sammy Kershaw (born 1958), American country music artist * Sammy Masters (1930–2013), American rockabilly musician * Sammy Price (1908-1992), American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader. Sports *Sammy Adjei (born 1980), Ghanaian retired footballer * Sammy Baugh (1914-2008), American college and Hall-of-Fame National Football League player and coach * Sammy Brooks (footballer) (1890-1960), English footballer *Sammy Carlson (born 1989), American freestyle skier *Sammy Collins (1923–1998), English footballer * Samuel Day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Sharaf
Sami Sharaf (20 April 1929 – 23 January 2023) was an Egyptian military officer who held various posts during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser. His public roles ended in May 1971 when he was arrested and then imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities in the period of Anwar Sadat. Early life and education Sharaf was born in Heliopolis, Cairo on 20 April 1929. His father was a physician. He graduated from the Military Academy in February 1949. One of his teachers at the academy was Gamal Abdel Nasser. Career and activities Following his graduation Sharaf joined the army. In January 1953 he was arrested in the artillery crackdown and jailed. After he was freed, he began to work in the military intelligence unit. Sharaf was the head of the Presidential Office. On 28 September 1961, he was named as the state minister for presidential affairs. He was a member of the Arab Socialist Union and was part of its secret unit, the Socialist Vanguard (Arabic: al-Tanzim al-Tali‘i), which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Osmakac
Sami Osmakac (born December 28, 1986) is an Albanian American convicted by a jury on June 10, 2014, following a criminal trial in U.S. District Court, of plotting terrorist attacks in and near Tampa, Florida. Background Osmakac, an Albanian and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested January 7, 2012, for his plot. He intended to bomb nightclubs, detonate a car bomb, fire an assault rifle, wear an explosive belt in a crowded area, and take hostages. Osmakac recorded an eight-minute video prior to his arrest describing the planned attack as retribution for wrongs committed against Muslims. The Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed Osmakac bought explosives and firearms from an undercover agent. He had been under investigation since September 2011, when a confidential source informed federal authorities that Osmakac walked into a business seeking al-Qaeda flags. Osmakac appeared in videos posted to an extremist YouTube nom de guerre "''Abu Samia''", in which he condemned other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Levi
Sami Levi (born April 13, 1981 in Istanbul) is the soloist of the Turkish band Sefarad. He graduated in 1998 from the Göztepe Lisesi school in Istanbul. Solo career Recently, he started his solo career, while still collaborating with Ceki Benşuşe of Sefarad. Of his solo career, he has released three albums: a maxi-single, Hade Hade - Duke Duke and a full album, Disco Kolbastı ve Balkan Havaları and SAMİ - Seve Seve 2011 www.ttnetmuzik.com.tr/samiseveseve Discography *''Sefarad'' (2003) (with Sefarad) *''Sefarad II'' (2005) (with Sefarad[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Moubayed
Sami Moubayed ( ar, سامي مروان مبيّض) (born 16 July 1978) is a Syrian historian and writer who has written extensively on the modern history of Damascus from the late Ottoman period until creation of the United Arab Republic in 1958. In 2017 he co-founded The Damascus History Foundation, a non-governmental organization aimed at preserving the archives of the ancient city of Damascus, threatened with extinction because of age, poor preservation, or neglect, becoming its founding chairman. Biography Sami Moubayed, a native of Damascus, studied at the Faculty of Political Science at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Moubayed, obtained his PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter, specializing in the founding years of the Syrian Republic. During his college years, Moubayed was mentored by Munir al-Ajlani, a ranking parliamentarian and politician from the pre-Baath Era. His first book, ''The Politics of Damascus 1920–1946'', was publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Khedira
Sami Khedira (; born 4 April 1987) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He began his career at VfB Stuttgart, winning the Bundesliga in 2007, before moving to Real Madrid in 2010. In his five seasons in Spain, he won seven domestic and international trophies, including the UEFA Champions League in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Italian side Juventus on a free transfer, and won the Serie A title and Coppa Italia in his first three seasons with the club, followed by two more league titles and a Supercoppa Italiana. A full international for Germany since 2009, Khedira earned 77 caps for the national team. He has taken part at three FIFA World Cups and two UEFA European Championships with Germany, and was part of their squads which reached the semi-finals at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2012 and 2016 UEFA European Football Championships; he also won the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Club career VfB Stuttgart Before joining the youth team of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Al-Jaber
Sami Abdullah Al-Jaber ( ar, سامي الجابر; born 11 December 1972) is a Saudi Arabian football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. He spent the entirety of his career with Al-Hilal apart from a five-month loan to English club Wolverhampton Wanderers. Al-Jaber is his country's second highest international goalscorer with 46 goals in 156 internationals from 1992 to 2006. He appeared in four consecutive FIFA World Cup tournaments, from 1994 to 2006, scoring in three of them. He was also a member of the Saudi squads which won the AFC Asian Cup in 1996. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Saudi footballers ever. Club career Al-Jaber made his Al-Hilal debut in 1989 and spent nearly 20 years at the club. In 2000, he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan, where he made just five appearances in five months. After the club learned that Al-Jaber's father had been taken seriously ill, he was allowed to join United Arab Emirates side Al-Ain o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Al-Hinnawi
Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi ( ar, محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي, Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a Syrian politician and military officer. Life On December 19, 1949, Shishakli carried out a coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was murdered in Beirut, Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of Muhsin al-Barazi Muhsin al-Barazi ( ar, محسن البرازي; 1904 – 14 August 1949) was a Kurdish Syrian lawyer, academic and politician. He served a short term as a 24th Prime Minister of Syria in 1949 and was executed after a coup d'état overthrew his g ..., the Prime Minister who was overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup. References Further reading * 1898 births 1950 deaths Chiefs of Staff of the Syrian Army Politicians from Beirut Syrian people murdered abroad Syrian Social Nationalist Party politicians {{syria-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Ibrahim Haddad
, honorific_suffix = M.D., I.S.S., F.A.C.S., G.M.B. , image = shaddad.jpg , imagesize = 200px , birth_date = , birth_place = Jaffa, Palestine , death_date = , death_place = Beirut, Lebanon , occupation = Doctor, Surgeon , nationality = Lebanese Sami Ibrahim Haddad, ar, سامي ابراهيم حداد (July 3, 1890 – February 5, 1957) was a doctor, surgeon and writer. He was born in Palestine and spent most of his life in Lebanon. Life He completed preparatory education at the Bishop Gobat School (1901–1905) and the English College (1907–1909) in Jerusalem. This left an indelible mark on him. His assertiveness, honesty, discipline, and austerity most probably derived from his early Scottish high school teachers in Jerusalem, where he earned the Gibbon Memorial Prize in July 1906. He graduated with a Medical Doctor (MD) degree from the Syrian Protestant College (SPC) in 1913. For seven years after graduation (1913–1919), he practiced gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Güçlü
Sami Güçlü (born September 6, 1950, Konya, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...), is a Turkish politician. He is a founding member of the Justice and Development Party. He was the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in the cabinet of Abdullah Gül and the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. External links Sami Güçlü biography biyografya.com. 1950 births Living people Government ministers of Turkey Deputies of Konya Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians Agriculture ministers Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey {{Turkey-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Chohfi
Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise network of malaria researchers People * Samee, also spelled Sami, a male given name * Sami (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname * Sámi people, indigenous people of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Kola Peninsula, Karelia and Finland ** Sámi cuisine ** Sámi languages, of the Sami people ** Sámi shamanism, a faith of the Sami people Places * Sápmi, a cultural region in Northern Europe * Sami (ancient city), in Elis, Greece * Sami Bay, east of Sami, Cephalonia * Sami District, Gambia * Sami, Burkina Faso, a district of the Banwa Province * Sami, Cephalonia, a municipality in Greece * Sami, Gujarat, a town in Patan district of Gujarat, India * Sami, Paletwa, a town in Chin State, Myanmar * Sämi, a village i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
