İlkay
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İlkay is a common feminine Turkish given name
. "İlkay" is composed of two words: "İlk" and "Ay". In Turkish, "İlk" means "first", and/or "prime", whereas "ay" means "moon". Thus, İlkay means "new moon
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Turkish name
A Turkish name consists of an ad and a soyadı . Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one soyadı in the full name, there may be more than one ad...
. "İlkay" is composed of two words: "İlk" and "Ay". In Turkish, "İlk" means "first", and/or "prime", whereas "ay" means "moon". Thus, İlkay means "new moon
New moon
In astronomical terminology, the new moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth...
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People
- İlkay Akkaya, a Turkish singer and vocalist of Grup Kızılırmak (see Turkish Wikipedia article).
- Ilkay Dikmen, a Turkish swimmer who swum in quarter finals Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke.
- İlkay Gündoğanİlkay Gündoğanİlkay Gündoğan is a German footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund as a midfielder, having previously played for VfL Bochum and 1. FC Nuremberg.-Club career:...
, German footballer of Turkish descent. - İlkay Saran, a Turkish actor performing in Şans Kapıyı KırıncaŞans Kapıyı KırıncaWhen Luck Breaks the Door is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assanation plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on , was...
and The White AngelThe White AngelThe White Angel is a 2007 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which follows the story of two Eastern youths who find themselves in a rest home after their father comes down with cancer...
(see Turkish Wikipedia article). - İlkay Sipahi, a Turkish musician and pop singer (see Turkish Wikipedia article).