Nilüfer
Nilüfer is a Turkish female given name of Persian origin.
Origin and meaning
Nilüfer (Arabic-Persian Nilūfar ) is a Persian name of Indo-European origin and related to Greek Nenuphar or Greek-Latin Nenufar (“lotus flower”, “water lily”; see also yellow pond rose ).
Name bearers
- Nilüfer Akbal (* 1969), Zaza-Kurdish singer
- Nilüfer Demir (* 1986), Turkish photographer
- Nilüfer Göle (* 1953), Turkish sociologist
- Nilüfer Hatun (12 ** - 13 **), wife of Orhan I. and mother of Murad I.
- Nilüfer Örer (* 1976), Turkish pop musician
- Nilüfer Yumlu (* 1955), Turkish pop singer, known as Nilüfer
places
- Nilüfer (Bursa) is a district town in the Turkish province of Bursa
Individual evidence
- ^ Nilüfer on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ Nilüfer on behalf dictionary of the Turkish language (Turkish).
- ↑ Franz Babinger: Nilufer Khatun. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, CE Bosworth , E. van Donzel and WP Heinrichs. Brill, 2009.
- ↑ Nabil Osman (Ed.): Small lexicon of German words of Arabic origin. 3rd edition Munich 1992, p. 96