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

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