Bengisu (Turkish: Water of Life) is a Turkish feminine given name and a surname. It is a

compound word In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates compound lexemes. Compounding occurs when ...

: ''bengi'' refers to ''eternal'' and ''su'' refers to ''water'' in Turkish. Notable people with the name are as follows:

Given name

First name

Bengisu Erçetin Bengisu Erçetin (born 1 January 2001) is a Turkish badminton player. Erçetin won the gold medal at the 2018 European Junior Championships, 2022 Mediterranean Games, and the silver medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games partnered with Nazlıcan ...

(born 2001), Turkish badminton player

Middle name

Nihal Bengisu Karaca Nihal Bengisu Karaca (born 1972) is a Turkish journalist and author. She was born in Ankara in 1972. Her father was a surgeon originating from the Turkish minority of Komotini, Greece. She finished her studies at Kayseri İmam Hatip High School ...

(born 1972), Turkish journalist

Surname

* Buket Bengisu (born 1978), known as

Buket Bengisu and Group Safir Buket Bengisu (born 19 September 1978) is a Turkish singer. She finished her primary studies in Istanbul. She grew up in a family that was closely associated with music, as her father was a bassist and her mother was a pianist. In 1996, she enrolle ...

, Turkish musical artist *

Lerzan Bengisu Lerzan Bengisu (1906–16 March, 1978) was a Turkish sculptor and woodcrafter. Life She was born in Istanbul in 1906. She is the wife of Prof. Dr. Naci Bengisu and the mother of Prof. Dr. Ünal Bengisu. She died in 1978 in Istanbul and was b ...

(1906–1978), Turkish sculptor and woodcrafter

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