Behind the Name: Bosnian Names

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search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes
- example: "lord of the rings" will match names from the novel 'The Lord of the Rings'
this field understands simple boolean logic
- force a term to be included by preceding it with a + sign
- force a term to be excluded by preceding it with a - sign
- example: +greek +(legend myth) -zeus will match Greek names of myths or legends not about Zeus
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ABDULAH m Bosnian
Bosnian form of ABD ALLAH.

ADNAN m Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Urdu
Means "settler" in Arabic. According to tradition, Adnan was an ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and the northern Arabian tribes.

AHMED m Turkish, Bosnian, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto
Variant transcription and Turkish and Bosnian form of AHMAD. This was the name of three Ottoman sultans.

AJDIN m Bosnian
Bosnian form of AYDIN.

AJLA f Bosnian
Bosnian form of AYLA (2).

ALDIN m Bosnian
Bosian form of ALA AL-DIN.

ALDINA (2) f Bosnian
Bosian feminine form of ALA AL-DIN.

ALEKSANDAR m Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
Cognate of ALEXANDER.

ALEM m Bosnian
Bosnian form of ALIM.

ALISA f Russian, Ukrainian, Bosnian, Finnish
Russian, Ukrainian, Bosnian and Finnish form of ALICE.

ALMIR (2) m Bosnian
Bosnian form of AL-AMIR.

ALMIRA (2) f Bosnian
Bosnian feminine form of AL-AMIR.

AMAR (2) m Bosnian
Bosnian form of 'AMMAR.

AMEL (1) m Bosnian
Bosnian masculine form of AMAL (1).

AMELA f Bosnian
Bosnian feminine form of AMAL (1).

AMINA f Bosnian, Arabic
Bosnian form of AMINAH (2). It is also a variant transcription of Arabic AMINAH (1) or AMINAH (2).

AZRA f Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Persian, Urdu
Means "virgin" in Arabic.

BAKIR m Bosnian
Bosian form of BAQIR.

DEMIR m Bosnian
Bosnian form of DEMİR.

DŽAFER m Bosnian
Bosnian form of JAFAR.

EMINA f Bosnian
Bosnian form of AMINAH (2).

EMIR m Bosnian
Bosnian form of AMIR (1).

EMIRA f Bosnian
Bosnian form of AMIRAH.

ENES m Turkish, Bosnian
Turkish and Bosnian form of ANIS.

ENIS m Bosnian
Bosnian form of ANIS.

ENISA f Bosnian
Bosnian feminine form of ANIS.

ENVER m Turkish, Bosnian
Turkish and Bosnian form of ANWAR.

ESMA f Turkish, Bosnian
Turkish and Bosnian form of ASMA.

FARIS m Arabic, Bosnian
Means "knight" in Arabic.

FERID m Bosnian
Bosnian form of FARID.

HANA (1) f Arabic, Bosnian
Means "bliss, happiness" in Arabic.

HARIS (1) m Bosnian, Urdu, Arabic
Bosnian and Urdu form of HARITH, as well as a variant transcription of the Arabic name.

HARUN m Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian
Arabic form of AARON. Harun al-Rashid was a 9th-century Abbasid caliph featured in the stories of 'The 1001 Nights'.

HUSEIN m Bosnian
Bosnian form of HUSAYN.

IBRAHIM m Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Bosnian
Arabic, Malay and Indonesian form of ABRAHAM.

IBRO m Bosnian
Bosnian diminutive of IBRAHIM.

IZUDIN m Bosnian
Bosnian form of IZZ AL-DIN.

JUSUF m Bosnian
Bosnian form of YUSUF.

LAMIJA f Bosnian
Bosnian form of LAMIA (1).

LEJLA f Bosnian
Bosnian form of LAYLA.

MEHMED m Ottoman Turkish, Bosnian
Older form of MEHMET, as well as the Bosnian form. This was the name of six sultans of the Ottoman Empire, including Mehmed II the conqueror of Constantinople.

MELISA f Spanish, Bosnian
Spanish and Bosnian form of MELISSA.

MENSUR m Bosnian
Bosnian form of MANSUR.

MIRSAD m Bosnian
Meaning unknown, possibly derived from Arabic meaning "watchtower" or Persian meaning "ambush".

MIRSADA f Bosnian
Feminine form of MIRSAD.

MIRZA m Persian, Arabic, Bosnian
Means "prince" from Persian میرزا (mirza), earlier امیرزاده (amirzadeh), which is ultimately from Arabic أمير (amir) meaning "commander" combined with Persian زاده (zadeh) meaning "offspring".

MUHAMED m Bosnian
Bosnian form of MUHAMMAD.

MUJO m Bosnian
Bosnian diminutive of MUSTAFA.

MURAT m Turkish, Bosnian
Turkish and Bosnian form of MURAD.

SABAHUDIN m Bosnian
Bosnian form of SABAH UD-DIN.

SALIH m Arabic, Bosnian
Means "virtuous" in Arabic. According to the Qur'an this was the name of an early Arabian prophet.

SARA f Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, German, French, Dutch, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, English, Arabic, Persian, Bosnian
Form of SARAH.

SEAD m Bosnian
Bosnian form of SA'ID.

SEJAD m Bosnian
Bosnian form of SA'ID.

SKENDER m Bosnian
Short form of ALEKSANDAR.

SULJO m Bosnian
Bosnian diminutive of SÜLEYMAN.

TARIK m Bosnian, Arabic
Bosnian form of TARIQ. It is also a variant transcription of the Arabic name.

ZLATAN m Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Slovene
Means "golden", a derivative of the Slavic word zlato "gold".

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	Meaning	expand search to ancestral names the meaning is anything from the name's write-up that is surrounded by "double quotes" separate search terms with spaces search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes example: "lord of the rings" will match names from the novel 'The Lord of the Rings' this field understands simple boolean logic force a term to be included by preceding it with a + sign force a term to be excluded by preceding it with a - sign example: +greek +(legend myth) -zeus will match Greek names of myths or legends not about Zeus expand search to ancestral names: meanings for names further up the family tree will be included in the search
	Description	ignore name meanings the description is the meaning and history write-up for the name separate search terms with spaces search for an exact phrase by surrounding it with double quotes example: "lord of the rings" will match names from the novel 'The Lord of the Rings' this field understands simple boolean logic force a term to be included by preceding it with a + sign force a term to be excluded by preceding it with a - sign example: +greek +(legend myth) -zeus will match Greek names of myths or legends not about Zeus ignore name meanings: keywords from the name meanings are ignored
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	Syllables	syllables can only be counted in names that have been assigned pronunciations names without pronunciations are excluded from results
	Pattern	the pattern will be compared to the name * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters example: oo will match names which contain oo _ is a wildcard that will match exactly one letter example: __z will match names which have two letters and then a z
	Sound	case sensitive see the pronunciation key for a guide on how to write the sounds sounds can only be searched in names that have been assigned pronunciations names without pronunciations are excluded from results * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters in the pronunciation example: lee will match names which end with the sound lee* (s) will match exactly one syllable in the pronunciation example: (s)(s)rah will match names which have two syllables and then the sound rah (c) will match a consonant (k) will match a consonant or consonant cluster (v) will match a vowel (p) will match a plosive or stop consonant (p) will match a fricative consonant (n) will match a nasal consonant case sensitive: check this if you wish distinguish between unstressed lowercase sounds and stressed uppercase sounds
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