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Family name Dakouri Dakouris

Other variants: Dakkhuri Dakkhouri Dakhuri Dakhouri Dakkuri Dakuri Dacouri

Related to: Khouri Khuri Kouri Kouris Coury

An Arabic Christian family name, with versions occurring in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, southern Greece, Iraq, and North Africa. Variants are also reported from 19th. c. Anatolia/Turkey (Dakhouri, Takhouri, Daourtsi ).

The name likely derives from Arabic Khuri / Khouri, 'priest' in Christian Arabic communities. The prothem Dakk/Dak relates to the root dakk-, which may be etymologically connected to the trade of stone dressing (dakaheh, dakkik ). The term is also associated with a special kind of tattooing process employed by Arabic Christians in Syria dating back to at least the mid 19th c..

A less likely etymology involves the ancient Aramaic root Dakk-. Aramean tribes originating from the Syrian desert eventually coalesced into the largest Chaldean tribe in the 7th c. BC, namely the Bit-Dak(k)uri (associated with the homonymous site south of Borsippa near Babylon). Eerdman's dictionary of the Bible (2000), D.N. Freedman et al., 230/ref>).