Bahadır
# Bahadır

Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase.

## Related names

Bahadır is the modern version of "Baghatur".

On the other hand, Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" and is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people. Moreover, Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Batur, and as in other cognate forms.

### Equivalents

* Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر)
* Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ)
* Persian: Bahadur (بهادر)
* Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر)
* Turkmen: Batyr

### Other Relations

* History: Modu (Possibly a Middle Chinese form (冒頓) of the old Turkic honorific title "bagatur".)
* Turkish: Mete (Turkish form of Modu.)
* Caucasian Mythology: Batraz (Possibly from Turkic "bagatur". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian mythology.)
* Ossetian: Batraz (Батырадз)

## Notable people with the name

### Given name

* Bahadır Akkuzu (1955–2009), Turkish musician
* Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), Turkish archaeologist
* Bahadır Demir (1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat
* Bahadır Gökay (born 1955), Turkish painter

### Surname

* Abulghazi Bahadur, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva
* Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper
* Turgay Bahadır (born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer
