Posted by graham
on 4/25/2006, 6:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Ibis a Turkish surname?"
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Hi Caroline, I just checked Google Turkish and came up with 64,000 hits. Ibish is a not uncommon Turkish surname. Ibish is a character in the shadow puppet theatre of Hacivat and Karagoz. It is also probably a slangly familiar abbrev of Ibrahim. But remember, Turks only took surnames in 1935. Does this fit with anything? Cheers, Graham
--Previous Message--
: Dear Carolyn,
: There is a word like ibis in Türkish
: language. It is pronounced like
: "ibisch" and written with a hook
: underneath "s".
: I can't say if your family name is somehow
: related with this word in our language. I
: think it is a short form of
: "Ibrahim" (a name), but mostly
: used in slang, with the meaning "fool,
: sappy, muddleheaded, funny person".
: Regards
: Dogu
:
: --Previous Message--
: Even though my father is from Prussia, our
: family surname is not Prussian or German.
: My father thinks that someone Turkish
: married into the family way, way back. Is
: Ibis, a Turkish Surname?
:
: Please send reply to my e-mail.
:
: Carolyn:-)
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