Cahit
# 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 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 autho
