Emre
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| Emre | |
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| Pronunciation | [ˈemɾe] |
| Gender | Male |
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Emre is a Turkish male given name.
[edit] Meaning
It is assumed that the name means poet or bard in an extinct Kypchak Turkic dialect. It also means man with passion, friend, brother, General or Grand Seignior. It has also been claimed that it means deeply in love with the house of P, as these poets were Sufi mystics, Yunus Emre is the best known of those poets. The name became very popular in the 1980s in Turkey because by some the word was thought to be purely Turkish, and by others Yunus Emre was seen as a symbol of peace during those politically chaotic years in Turkey, and the name was used to honour this pacifist poet.[citation needed]
[edit] Given name
- Emre Altuğ, Turkish musician
- Emre Aşık, Turkish footballer
- Emre Aydın, Turkish rock singer
- Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer
- Emre Güngör, Turkish footballer
- Emre Kızılkaya, Turkish journalist
[edit] Surname
- Erhan Emre, Turkish-German actor
- Yunus Emre, Turkish poet
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