Bahadır

Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase.

Related names
Bahadır is the modern version of "Baghatur".

On the other hand, Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" and is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people. Moreover, Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Batur, and as in other cognate forms.

Equivalents

 * Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر)
 * Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ)
 * Persian: Bahadur (بهادر)
 * Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر)
 * Turkmen: Batyr

Other Relations

 * History: Modu (Possibly a Middle Chinese form (冒頓) of the old Turkic honorific title "bagatur".)
 * Turkish: Mete (Turkish form of Modu.)
 * Caucasian Mythology: Batraz (Possibly from Turkic "bagatur". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian mythology.)
 * Ossetian: Batraz (Батырадз)

Given name

 * Bahadır Akkuzu (1955–2009), Turkish musician
 * Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), Turkish archaeologist
 * Bahadır Demir (1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat
 * Bahadır Gökay (born 1955), Turkish painter

Surname

 * Abulghazi Bahadur, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva
 * Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper
 * Turgay Bahadır (born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer