Bahadır

For the village in Kastamonu Province, Turkey, see Bahadır, Kastamonu.

Bahadır

Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Turkish
Origin
Language(s)	Turkish
Word/name	"bahadır"
Derivation	"bahadır"
Meaning	"brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", "gallant"
Other names
Cognate(s)	Mete, Metehan
See also	Baghatur

Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. 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".

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

Surname

• Abulghazi Bahadur, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva
• Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper
• Turgay Bahadır (born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer