Mahir

Mahir (Arabic: ماهر ) is a male first name.

Origin and Meaning

Mahir is an Arabic male first name ( Arabic origin ) " sent, experienced, qualified" with the meaning.

It comes mainly in the Balkans (Bosnia, Sandžak ), in Turkey and in the Arab world before ..

He will also, but mostly used only in the Arab world, as a family, like many other proper names in Arabic are used as a family name.

In some transcriptions is written instead of " Mahir " " Maher ". The a of Mahir is stretched while the i short.

Bearers of the name

First name

• Mahir al -Assad (born 1967 ), Syrian military
• Mahir Çakar ( born 1945 ), Turkish horn
• Mahir Cayan (1945-1972), Turkish revolutionary and co-founder of the Turkish People's Liberation Party-Front
• Mahir Oral (* 1980), German boxer of Turkish descent
• Mahir Sağlık ( b. 1983 ), the Turkish football player
• Mahir Savranlıoğlu (* 1986), the Turkish football player
• Eddy Mahir Sidra (* 1989), Sudanese- Canadian football player
• Mahir al - Muaiqly, Saudi Imam

Family name

• Ahmed Maher (1935-2010), Egyptian diplomat and politician
• Mirja Mahir (* 1974), German actress
• Sabri (* 1890), Turkish boxer and boxing coach