Nuri (name)
Nuri is a common first name in several languages and surname.
Origin and Meaning
Nuri is an Arab, predominantly female, and a particular Turkish male first name. Nuri also occurs as a family name. The name derives from the Arabic word for " light " (only ), meaning " bright" or " enlightened".
Bearers of the name
Ottoman period
- Nuri Pasha Osman (1832-1900), General of the Ottoman army
- Osman Nuri (1839-1906), Turkish general and painter
Male first name
- Nuri Aksel ( born 1953 ), Turkish- German university teachers of Fluid Mechanics
- Nuri Fatih Aydın (* 1995), the Turkish football player
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( born 1959 ), Turkish film director, screenwriter, film producer and photographer
- Nuri Çolak ( b. 1975 ), the Turkish football player
- Dersimi Nuri (1893-1973), Kurdish politicians
- Reşat Güntekin Nuri (1889-1956), Turkish diplomat and writer
- Nuri al -Maliki ( born 1950 ), Iraqi politicians
- Gazmend Nuri Oketa (* 1968), Albanian politicians
- Yaşar Nuri Öztürk ( born 1951 ), Turkish jurist, religious philosopher and author
- Nuri Şahin ( * 1988), German -Turkish football player
- Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) ( born 1980 ), Turkish volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Nuri as- Said (1888-1958), Iraqi politicians
- Rodsch Nuri Schawais ( * 19 **), Iraqi politicians
- Nuri Sezer ( * 19 **), the Turkish actor in Berlin
- Sojliu Nuri (1870-1940), Albanian politicians
- Osman Nuri Topbaş ( b. 1942 ), a Turkish Sufi master and author
- Evren Nuri Turhan ( b. 1974 ), the Turkish football player
- Yamut Nuri (1890-1961), Turkish general
Family name
- Ali Akbar Nateq Nuri ( born 1943 ), Iranian Shiite clerics and politicians
- Fazlollah Nuri (1843-1909), Iranian Shiite clerics
- Ihsan Nuri Pasha (1893-1976), Kurdish revolutionary