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Nilüfer Güngörmüş
Nilüfer is the Turkish word for "water lily", from Persian ''nîlûfar'' (نیلوفر), which is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word for the blue lotus ''nīḷōtpaḷa'' (नीळोत्पळ). It is a popular feminine given name in Turkey. It may refer to: Given name * Nilüfer Çınar Çorlulu (born 1962), Turkish Woman International Master (WIM) of chess * Nilüfer Demir (born 1986), Turkish photojournalist * Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz (born 1962), Turkish politician * Nilüfer Göle (born 1953), Turkish-French sociologist * Nilüfer Gürsoy (1921–2024), Turkish philologist, politician and memoirist * Nilufer Hanımsultan (1916–1989), Ottoman princess * Nilüfer Hatun (died 1363), mother of Ottoman Sultan Murad I * Nilüfer Örer (born 1976), Turkish pop singer * Nilüfer Verdi (born 1956), Turkish jazz pianist * Nilüfer Yumlu (born 1955), Turkish pop singer whose stage name is simply "Nilüfer" * Nilüfer Yanya Nilüfer Yanya (; born 11 May 1995) is a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niloufar (other)
Niloufar, Nilophur, Nelofar, Nilofar, Nilufar, Niloofar, Neelofar, Neiloufar or Nîlûfar (Persian language, Persian: نیلوفر), meaning ''Precious'', ''Rare'', ''blue lotus'', ''Nymphaea'' or ''water lily'' is a female given name of Persian origin (which is ultimately from Sanskrit: wikt:नीलोत्पल, नीलोत्पल, ISO 15919, ISO: ''nīlōtpala''). People * Niloufar Ardalan, (born 1985), Iranian footballer, captain of the Iranian national women's football team * Nilofar Bakhtiar (born 1957), Pakistani politician and public official * Niloufar Bayani, (born 1986), Iranian wildlife conservation biology researcher and activist. * Niloofar Beyzaie (born 1967), Iranian dramaturge, theatre director and playwright * Princess Niloufer, Nilüfer Hanımsultan, (1916-1989), Princess of Turkey by birth and princess of Hyderabad State by marriage. * Nelufar Hedayat, (born 1988), British journalist and presenter * Nilufar Mamadalieva, biochemist from Uzbekistan * Nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Göle
Nilüfer Göle (born 1953) is a Turkish sociologist and a contemporary Turkish academic who specializes in the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, and religious Muslim women. She is the daughter of Turgut Göle, a politician from the Republican People's Party. From 1986 to 2001 a professor at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, she is currently Directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), in Paris. Göle is the author of ''Interpénétrations: L’Islam et l’Europe'' and ''The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling''. Through personal interviews, Göle has developed detailed case studies of young Turkish women who are turning to the tenets of fundamental Islamic gender codes. Her sociological approach, which is underpinned with Socialist and Marxist ideology, has also produced a broader critique of Eurocentrism Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Names Derived From Plants Or Flowers
A given is a statement or a condition assumed to be true or known, often to explain or give an example of something; for related topics, see: * Presumption (in law) * Axiom (in formal logic) * Givenness (in discourse) * Conditional probability, usually expressed using the term "given" Given may also refer to: Places * Given, Iran, or Givan, a village in West Azerbaijan, Iran * Given, West Virginia, a settlement in the United States People with the surname * Josiah Given, American judge in the Iowa Supreme Court * Leslie E. Given, American Justice for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia * Shay Given (born 1976), Irish footballer * Thelma Given (1896–1977), American violinist Media and entertainment * "Given", a song by Seether from ''Karma and Effect'' * ''Given'' (manga), a Japanese boys' love manga series ** ''Given'' (anime), the anime of the manga series ** ''Given'' (2020 film), a 2020 animated film based on the series ** ''Given'' (2024 film), the sequel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Yanya
Nilüfer Yanya (; born 11 May 1995) is a British singer, songwriter and musician. Early life Yanya is the daughter of two visual artists. Her mother is of Irish and Barbadian heritage and her father is Turkish. Yanya said her mother lived in Turkey with her father when they were expecting her, and often heard the Turkish pop singer Nilüfer's name on the radio. She loved the name so much that she said, "If I have a daughter, I will name her Nilüfer." Yanya grew up in Chelsea, London, listening to Turkish music and classical music at home. She gravitated to rock music and learned how to play guitar at the age of 12. Career Informally starting her musical career with demos uploaded to SoundCloud in 2014, Yanya turned down an offer to join a girl group produced by Louis Tomlinson of One Direction and focused on developing her own music instead. She has spoken out against this model of talent acquisition, telling ''The Guardian'': "'Let's go and pinch some young people, tell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Yumlu
Nilüfer is the Turkish word for " water lily", from Persian ''nîlûfar'' (نیلوفر), which is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word for the blue lotus ''nīḷōtpaḷa'' (नीळोत्पळ). It is a popular feminine given name in Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen .... It may refer to: Given name * Nilüfer Çınar Çorlulu (born 1962), Turkish Woman International Master (WIM) of chess * Nilüfer Demir (born 1986), Turkish photojournalist * Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz (born 1962), Turkish politician * Nilüfer Göle (born 1953), Turkish-French sociologist * Nilüfer Gürsoy (1921–2024), Turkish philologist, politician and memoirist * Nilufer Hanımsultan (1916–1989), Ottoman princess * Nilüfer Hatun (died 1363), mother of Ottoman Sulta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Verdi
Nilüfer Ruacan Verdi (born 1956) is a Turkish jazz pianist; she is the first female jazz pianist in Turkey. Personal life Nilüfer Verdi was born into a family of musicians in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1956. Her father Nejat Verdi, whose ancestors were Cretan emigrants, was a percussionist, her mother Liselotte "Lilo" Auer Verdi was a painter and her older brother Murat Verdi is a drummer. Verdi became interested in music at a young age. She began taking piano lessons and continued with them into her high-school years. After attending Özel Eseniş Lisesi, a private high school in Arnavutköy, Istanbul, she moved to the United States to study music and took lessons in piano, harmony, arrangement and musical composition. She was educated at the Juilliard School in New York City, and by notable American pianists including Jack Reilly at The New School in New York City, and Ray Santisi, Bob Winter and Billie Pierce at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Verdi married jazz guitaris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Örer
Nilüfer Örer (born July 13, 1976 in Schweinfurt, Germany) is a Turkish pop singer. She started her first album, called ''Şımarık'', which was recorded in 1994. This album was released in 1996, but only to the Turkish music market. It spent several weeks at number 1 in the Top Ten of the Turkish music television channels Kral TV Kral TV is a music television channel in Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black ... and Genç TV. It was produced by her father, Arif Örer, who had successfully led a film distributor in Turkey for decades. The album was released by the well-known music label Şahin Özer Plak to the market. Discography * "Şımarık" (1996) * "Gördüm Sevdim" ft. Nani-S (2012) External links Official web site of Nilüfer Örer Turkish musicians German people of Turkish descent 1976 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Hatun
Nilüfer Hatun (, ''water lily'', called also Lülüfer Hatun or Ülüfer Hatun, died 1363), was a concubine of Orhan, the second Ottoman sultan, and the mother of Murad I, Orhan's successor. She was the first slave of Christian origin to become the mother of an Ottoman Sultan. Biography Nilüfer Hatun was an enslaved concubine of Greek origins, who entered Orhan's harem in 1325, where she was converted to Islam and given the name Nilüfer. The following year, she bore Orhan a son, the future Murad I. After 1331, she was transferred to Iznik together with her son. In March 1362, Orhan died and was succeeded as sultan by Nilüfer's son, Murad I. Nilüfer, thus, became the first woman of Christian slave origins to be the mother of an Ottoman sultan and the first Valide Hatun of the Ottoman Empire. During her lifetime, Nilüfer commissioned the construction of an imaret, an hammam, a caravanserai and eighteen other buildings for various uses, especially charitable. The da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilufer Hanımsultan
Nilüfer Hanımsultan; (, married: Princess Niloufer Khanum Sultan Farhat Begum Sahiba ; 4 January 1916 – 12 June 1989), nicknamed '' Kohinoor of Hyderabad'', was an Ottoman princess by birth and an Indian princess by marriage. She was the first wife of Moazzam Jah, the second son of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad in India. Early life Nilüfer Hanımsultan was born on 4 January 1916 at the Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, at a time when her mother's family was ruling the Ottoman Empire. Her father was Damad Moralızade Selaheddin Ali Bey, son of Moralızade Mehmed Ali Bey and Zehra Aliye Hanım. Her mother was Adile Sultan, a daughter of Şehzade Mehmed Selaheddin and Tevhide Zatıgül Hanım, and a granddaughter of Sultan Murad V. In December 1918, aged two, she lost her father. At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, she and her mother settled in France, taking up residence in the Mediterranean city of Nice. Marriage In 1931, Caliph Abdulmejid II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Gürsoy
Nilüfer Gürsoy (; 1 June 1921 – 1 July 2024) was a Turkish philologist, politician and memoirist. She served in the parliament between 1965 and 1969, and from 1973 to 1980. She was the daughter of the third president of Turkey, Celâl Bayar. Education and academic life Nilüfer Bayar received her primary education privately at home. She then attended Maarif Koleji (later TED Ankara College) for her secondary and high school education, graduating in 1939. The same year, she studied further, philosophy at Istanbul University. After one year she enrolled in the School of Language and History – Geography of Ankara University due to her family's move to Ankara, and studied classical philology. Following her graduation, she was appointed assistant in the Department of Ancient Greek Language in 1949. She worked on the doctoral thesis "Euripides' political views", and earned a Doctor of Philology degree in 1954. She was dismissed from the university after the 1960 coup d'ét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz
Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz (born 1962, Mardin, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician and a former member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Mayor of Kiziltepe for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Education Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz received her primary and secondary education and attended high school in Kiziltepe. Following, she began to study economics at the Anadolu University in Eskisehir, but did not graduate. Political career She was a member of the women's assembly of the BDP. Additionally she took a seat in the disciplinary council of the parties Madrid branch. In the local elections in March 2019, she was elected as a mayor of Kiziltepe for the HDP with more than 70% of the voter-share. During her tenure, the municipality supported the local football club. She was dismissed from office in November 2019 on grounds of her activities in the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) which was viewed as an indication of a membership in the forbidden Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
