Remnants of Theophoric Names in Turkic Name Giving

Authors : L. RÁSONYI

Pages : 291-296

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Publication Date : 1982-04-20

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In my study entitled `The Psychology and Categories of Name Giving Among the Turkish Peoples` insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Hungaro - Turcica, Budapest 1976, pp. 207-223); I divided Turkic personal names into six major groups, and within these groups further 14 categories of men`s names and a couple of women`s names were distinguished. A very important semantic category of Turkic names is that of the theophoric names. In my Onomasticon Turcicum in preparation, more than sixty data are collected from different ages and different Turkic peoples for the name Töngri - berdi `God - giyen` insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(in their corresponding forms);, partly they are names of historical persons. The name of `God` could be substituted by different words, thus e. g. Ogan - berdi insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(A. v. Le Coq, Türkische Namen in Indien: GarbeFestgabe, 1927);, in the Islamic cultural sphere Allah - virdi insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Abramzon, Rozdenie kirgizskogo rebenka: Sbornik Muzeja Antropologii i Etnografii XII, 1949, p. 107); and Quday - berdi insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Abramzon, I . c.);. The latter two names served as basis for Russian patronymika such as Allahberdiev insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ein Chivaer in 1793: A. f. w. K. v. R. XVIII, p. 352);, Quday - Berdiev insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Turkmen name in 188o: Grodekov, Vojna IV. Pri1o2enie, p. 39);. The name Töngri - berdi itself has a variant Tagribirdi on Arabic soil, e. g. the great historian of the Mamelukes was called Abul Mahasin Ibn Tagribirdi insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1411-1469);. In the Arabic chronicle of this Ibn Tagribirdi, in the period between 1441 and 1469, sixteen such names are registered, and the same abundance of data is characteristic of another famous Mameluke historian Ibn Iyyâs.
Keywords : Theophoric Names, Turkish, Name Giving, Name of God