Murad
Murad is a male given name that occurs in several languages. It can also be a family name.
meaning
Murad comes from Arabic ( Arabic مراد, DMG Murād ). Translated it means "the ardent wish". However, like many Arabic names, it is also common in other oriental languages such as Turkish, Persian , etc.
Different spellings can occur , especially in languages that no longer use the Arabic script . Because of the Turkish final hardening , the Turkish form of the name is Murat .
variants
Name bearer
A name
- Sultans of the Ottoman Empire
First name
- Murad Bakhsh (1624–1661), one of the sons of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
- Murad Bayraktar (* 1974), German-Turkish journalist, editor and radio presenter
- Murad Ferid (1908–1998), German legal scholar
- Murad Hajdarau (* 1980), Belarusian wrestler
- Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931–2020), German diplomat and personality of Islam
- Murad Bey Muhammad (1750–1801), Emir of the Mamluks and regent of Egypt
- Murad Reis the Younger (1534–1638), pirate of Dutch origin and governor of Morocco
- Murad von Sebasteia (1874–1918), hero of the Armenian National Liberation Movement in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the Armenian genocide
family name
- Ahmad Murad (* 1978), Egyptian thriller writer
- Bashar Murad (* 1993), Palestinian singer and LGBT activist
- Dashni Murad (* 1986), Kurdish-Dutch singer
- Ferid Murad (* 1936), American physician, Nobel Prize winner 1998
- Jerry Murad (1918–1996), American harmonica player
- Khurram Murad (1932–1996), Pakistani writer and politician
- Leyla , Layla and Laila Murad (1918–1995), Egyptian actress and singer, see Leila Mourad
- Lloyd Murad (* 1933), Venezuelan athlete
- Murad Ali Murad , Afghan general
- Nadia Murad (* 1993), Yazidi human rights activist
after name change
- Josef Bem (1794–1850) alias Amurat (Murat) Pasha, Polish-Hungarian revolutionary general and convert to Islam
- Franz von Werner alias Murad Efendi (1836–1881), Austrian diplomat and convert to Islam
fiction
- Hadschi Murat , a title character in Tolstoy