Bahadır is a common masculine

Turkish given name A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full na ...

. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase.

Related names

Bahadır is the modern version of "

Baghatur Baghatur ( otk, 𐰉𐰍𐰀, Baga; mn, ''Baγatur'', Khalkha Mongolian: Баатар ''Bātar''; tr, Bağatur, Batur, Bahadır; russian: Богатырь Bogatyr; bg, Багатур Bagatur; fa, بهادر; pa, ਬਹਾਦੁਰ , بہا� ...

". On the other hand, Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" and is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people. Moreover, Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Batur, and as in other cognate forms.

Equivalents

* Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر) * Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ) * Persian: Bahadur (بهادر) * Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر) * Turkmen: Batyr

Other Relations

* History: Modu (Possibly a Middle Chinese form (冒頓) of the old Turkic honorific title "bagatur".) * Turkish: Mete (Turkish form of Modu.) * Caucasian Mythology: Batraz (Possibly from Turkic "bagatur". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian mythology.) * Ossetian: Batraz (Батырадз)

Notable people with the name

Given name

* Bahadır Akkuzu (1955–2009), Turkish musician *

Bahadır Alkım Uluğ Bahadır Alkım (February 28, 1915 – May 6, 1981) was a Turkish archaeologist. Uluğ Bahadır Alkım was born in İzmir, then Ottoman Empire on February 28, 1915. After his high school education, he entered the Faculty of Letters at Ista ...

(1915–1981), Turkish archaeologist * Bahadır Demir (1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat * Bahadır Gökay (born 1955), Turkish painter

Surname

Abulghazi Bahadur Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur ( uz, Abulgʻozi Bahodirxon, Abulgazi, Ebulgazi, Abu-l-Ghazi, August 24, 1603 – 1663) was Khan of Khiva from 1643 to 1663. He spent ten years in Persia before becoming khan, and was very well educated, writing two historical ...

, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva * Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper *

Turgay Bahadır Turgay Bahadır (born 15 January 1984 in Vienna) is a Turkish-Austrian footballer. Career Bahadir began his career with First Vienna FC and won the youth championship in 1999. He was then scouted from SK Rapid Wien in the summer of 2000. He th ...

(born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer {{DEFAULTSORT:Bahadir Turkish-language surnames Turkish masculine given names