Uras may refer to:
Alper is a male Turkish given name. It is composed of the two words alp and er. In Turkish, "Alp" means "Stouthearted", "Brave", "Chivalrous", "Daredevil", and/or "Valorous". The second, er means soldier or male. Additionally Alper is used as an adjective for an ancient legendary Turkish commander; Alp Er Tunga who lived around 300 B.C. It's meant to be a good hearted one too. From the same Asian cultural roots, Alper is closely related to name 勇士 derived 勇 =Alp and 士 =Er words.
Say may refer to:
Alkan may refer to:
Yılmaz is a Turkish word that translates to "unshirking", "unbeatable", or "brave", and is a very common surname and occasional male given name.
Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ِِح-م-د):
Mehmed is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Originally the intermediary vowels in the Arabic Muhammad were completed with an e in adoption to Turkish phonotactics, which spelled Mehemed and the name lost the central e over time. Final devoicing of d to t is a regular process in Turkish. The prophet himself is referred to in Turkish using the archaic version, Muhammed.
Mehmet Ufuk Uras is a Turkish libertarian politician and economist.
Ura may refer to:
Ufuk is a unisex Turkish given name meaning "horizon". It stems from the Arabic ufuq (أفق), having the same meaning, as does the corresponding Hebrew name "אופק". The name may refer to:
Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "darwīš" (درويش), referring to a Sufi aspirant. The word appears as a given name and surname in various forms throughout Arabic, Bosnian, Persian, and Turkish-speaking communities. An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names:
Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘beggar’, ‘one who goes from door to door’.
Altan is a male Turkish given name used also as first name and a Mongolian given name. Altan means "golden" in Mongolian and "red dawn" in Turkic. The related word "Altın" is also Turkish for "golden" and a common Turkish first name.
Erdem is a masculine Uyghur language origin from 11th century- Qutadghubilik. It means "virtue, merit, kind, knowledge".
İzzet is a Turkish given name for males and a surname. Outside Turkey the name is sometimes written as Izzet. Notable people with the name İzzet or Izzet include:
Yalçın or Yalcin is a given name and a surname of Turkic origin. It may refer to:
Güneş is a Turkish word meaning the Sun, which can be used as a given name and surname.
Başak may refer to:
Fatih is both an Arabic and Turkish masculine given name originating from the Arabic, meaning "conqueror, victor". People named Fatih include:
Ihsan is an Arabic masculine given name.
Ali Uras was a Turkish basketball player. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was also the president of Galatasaray S.K.
Tevfik Güngör Uras was a Turkish economist, journalist, academician and author. He wrote more than ten thousand economic articles in various newspapers. In general, he tried to explain the economy simply to his readers. To accomplish this goal, he explained simple economic issues in daily life by creating the imaginary characters of "Aunt Ayşe" and "Uncle Ali Rıza" in some of his writings.