Cahit

Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is also used as a surname It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد jāhid), which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". Notable people named Cahit include:

First name

 * Cahit Aral (1927–2011), Turkish engineer and politician
 * Cahit Arf (1910–1997), Turkish mathematician
 * Cahit Irgat (1915–1971), Turkish actor
 * Cahit Karakaş (born 1928), Turkish engineer and politician
 * Cahit Kıraç (born 1956), Turkish bureaucrat
 * Cahit Külebi (1917–1997), Turkish poet
 * Cahit Ortaç (1908–1980), Turkish politician
 * Cahit Ölmez (born 1963), Turkish Dutch actor
 * Cahit Önel (1927–1970), Turkish athlete
 * Cahit Özkan (born 1976), Turkish politician
 * Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish football player
 * Cahit Süme (born 1972), Turkish boxer
 * Cahit Talas (1917–2006), Turkish academic
 * Cahit Tanyol (1914–2020), Turkish writer and sociologist
 * Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), Turkish poet and author
 * Cahit Zarifoğlu (1940–1987), Turkish poet and writer

Middle name

 * Cemil Cahit Toydemir (1883–1956), Turkish army officer
 * Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1874–1957), Turkish writer and politician
 * Mehmet Cahit Turhan (born 1960), Turkish engineer and civil servant

Surname

 * Neriman Cahit (born 1937), Turkish Cypriot poet and author