Emre
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Emre is a Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 male given name.

Meaning

It is assumed that the name means poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 or bard
Bard
In medieval Gaelic and British culture a bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland...

 in an extinct Kypchak Turkic
Kypchak languages
The Kypchak languages , are a major branch of the Turkic language family spoken by more than 12 million people in an area spanning from Lithuania to China....

 dialect. It also means man with passion, friend, brother, General
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

 or Grand Seignior. It has also been claimed that it means deeply in love with the house of P, as these poets were Sufi mystics, Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present...

 is the best known of those poets. The name became very popular in the 1980s in Turkey because by some the word was thought to be purely Turkish, and by others Yunus Emre was seen as a symbol of peace during those politically chaotic years in Turkey, and the name was used to honour this pacifist poet.

Given name

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