Pehlivan or Pahlevan derives from Iranian language word meaning ''noble'', ''wrestler'', ''hero'' or ''champion'' and it is a loan word in many Asiatic languages as well as middle eastern languages including Turkish surname originally given to wrestlers. The name of Feyli (Pehli)

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...

is also deriving from the same root word. The word consist of two Iranic (Aryen) word "pehli" or "pahli" and "van, wan". While ''peh, pah'' is root word for hero "van" or "wan" is a suffix similar as in "er, or" in soldier, warrior, wrestler, shopper. Notable people with this surname include: * Barış Pehlivan (born 1983), Turkish journalist *

Ferhat Pehlivan Ferhat Pehlivan (born August 20, 1988, in Akçaabat, Trabzon Province, Turkey) is a Turkish amateur boxer competing in the light-flyweight division. The tall boxer at was a member of the Karnet S.K. in Akçaabat, Trabzon before he transfe ...

(born 1988), Turkish boxer * Halil Pehlivan (born 1994), Turkish footballer * Kurtdereli Mehmet Pehlivan (born 1864), Turkish wrestler * Yasin Pehlivan (born 1989), Turkish Austrian footballer

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