Serif

Şerif is a Turkish male given name of Arabic origin. As a particular Bosnian form of the first name appears Šerif . The Turkish feminine form of the name is Şerife .

Name bearer

Ottoman time

• Halil Serif Pasha (1831–1879), Ottoman diplomat and art collector
• Mehmet Serif Pasha (1865–1951), Ottoman politician
• Şerife Bacı (around 1900–1921), Turkish folk heroine and martyr

Male first name

• Şerif Gören (* 1944), Turkish film director and screenwriter
• Serif Konjević (* 1958), Bosnian singer
• Serif Mardin (1927-2017), Turkish sociologist
• Îsmet Şerîf Wanlî (1924–2011), Kurdish legal scholar and politician

Female first name

• Şerife Oruç , Turkish journalist

stage name

• Mahzuni Şerif ( Şerif Cırık ; 1940–2002), Turkish poet, singer, composer and musician on the Saz

Others

• Sancak-i Şerif , relic in the treasury of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul

See also

• Serif PhotoPlus , an image editing program from Serif
• MS Sans Serif , a sans serif raster font

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Şerif on vornames-weltweit.de
2. ↑ Şerif in the dictionary of names of the Turkish language (Turkish)
3. ↑ Šerif on vornames-weltweit.de
4. ↑ Şerife in the name dictionary of the Turkish language (Turkish)