Adnan (name)
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Adnan is an Arabic male name common in the Muslim world
. Its eponymous bearer was Adnan
, an ancestor of Muhammad
. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a semitic root ; to stay, abide.
Muslim world
The term Muslim world has several meanings. In a religious sense, it refers to those who adhere to the teachings of Islam, referred to as Muslims. In a cultural sense, it refers to Islamic civilization, inclusive of non-Muslims living in that civilization...
. Its eponymous bearer was Adnan
Adnan
Adnan is the traditional ancestor of the Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia, as opposed to the Qahtani of Southern and south eastern Arabia who descend from Qahtan.-Origin:...
, an ancestor of Muhammad
Muhammad
Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...
. The etymological meaning of the name is settler, from a semitic root ; to stay, abide.
Given name
- Adnan AdıvarAdnan AdivarAbdülhak Adnan Adıvar was a Turkish politician, writer, historian, and by profession a medical doctor. He has done original research and written on history of science...
, Turkish politician - Adnan AhmedAdnan AhmedAdnan Farooq Ahmed is a professional footballer who plays for Bradford Park Avenue in the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Ahmed is a British Asian of Pakistani descent...
, British professional footballer - Adnan AwadAdnan AwadAdnan Awad was a Captain in the Palestinian Liberation Army who joined the 15 May Organization and prepared to bomb the Noga Hilton hotel in Geneva, Switzerland on August 31, 1982, but instead fled the scene and later turned himself into the American embassy and claimed he wanted to renounce any...
, Palestinian captain - Adnan BadranAdnan BadranAdnan Badran is a Jordanian scientist, academic and politician. He was the prime minister of Jordan from April 7, 2005 to November 27, 2005.-Early life:Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan...
, Jordanian scientist, academic, politician and prime minister - Adnan BarakatAdnan BarakatAdnan Barakat is a Moroccan-Dutch professional footballer who currently plays for FK Baku. He formerly played for Dutch sides NAC Breda, FC Eindhoven, Cambuur Leeuwarden and FC Den Bosch He can play as a defensive midfielder with attacking thoughts. He can also play on the left cause he is...
, Moroccan footballer - Adnan BukhariAdnan BukhariA Saudi flight engineer, Adnan Zakaria Bukhari was initially reported by CNN to be one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11, 2001, attacks – his name was even said to have been on the flight manifest.-Biography:...
, Saudi Arabian aviator - Adnan ÇolakAdnan ÇolakAdnan Çolak is a Turkish serial killer known as the "Artvin Monster". In the Turkish district of Artvin, from 1992 to 1995, Çolak killed eleven elderly women between the ages of 68 and 95 and raped six others within the same age bracket. After being captured in 1995, Çolak's trial in the Zonguldak...
, Turkish serial killer - Adnan CokerAdnan CokerAdnan Coker is a Turkish abstract artist.He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Istanbul in 1951 and won European Concourt Prize in 1955. He went on to Paris on a scholarship from theTurkish state...
, Turkish abstract artist - Adnan al-DulaimiAdnan al-DulaimiAdnan al-Dulaimi is a Sunni Iraqi politician who became prominent following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein...
, Iraqi politician - Adnan ErkanAdnan ErkanAdnan Erkan is a former Turkish football goalkeeper.He played mostly for Ankaragücü and Denizlispor.Erkan made one appearance for the senior Turkey national football team and was a participant at the 1996 UEFA European Championship.-References:...
, Turkish footballer - Adnan GüngörAdnan GüngörAdnan Güngör is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Konyaspor in the Süper Lig. He has been capped by the Turkey national under-21 football team.-References:...
, Turkish footballer - Adnan HamidovicFrenkieAdnan Hamidović , better known by his stage name Frenkie, is a Bosnian rapper from Bijeljina, Bosnia. The themes present in his music are often concerned with the political situation in Bosnia, as well as traditional hip-hop subject matter such as battle rapping and pop culture...
, Bosnian rapper - Adnan al-HusayniAdnan al-HusayniAdnan Ghaleb al-Husayni is the governor for Quds Governorate, Waqf supervisor and member of Palestinian Authority Higher Council of Tourism. He belongs to the well-known al-Husayni clan of Jerusalem where he was born.-History:...
, Palestinian politician - Adnan KahveciAdnan KahveciAdnan Kahveci was a noted Turkish politician, one of the founders in 1983 of the Motherland Party led by Turgut Özal and who served as minister in successive governments throughout the 1980s...
, Turkish politician - Adnan Al-KaissieAdnan Al-KaissieAdnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie , better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former iraqi professional wrestler and a manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan...
, professional wrestler - Adnan KarimAdnan KarimAdnan Karim is a prominent Kurdish singer from Kirkuk, Iraq.He was born in 1963 in Kirkuk, an ancient and oil rich city in Kurdistan, with a significant Kurdish minority. Although coming from a financially challenged family, he received a high level of education...
, Kurdish singer - Adnan KhashoggiAdnan KhashoggiAdnan Khashoggi is a Saudi Arabian arms-dealer and businessman. He is also noted for his engagements with high society in both the Occident and Arabic-speaking worlds, and for his involvement in the Iran–Contra and Lockheed bribery scandals, and numerous other affairs...
, billionaire Saudi Arabian businessman - Adnan al-JanabiAdnan al-JanabiAdnan Abd al-Munim al-Janabi is an Iraqi politician, tribal leader and economist who was a Minister of State in the Iraqi Interim Government from June 2004 to January 2005....
, Iraqi politician - Adnan MaralAdnan MaralAdnan Maral is a Turkish-German actor best known for his role in the German comedy Türkisch für Anfänger.-Filmography:-Television:- Awards :...
, Turkish-German actor - Adnan MenderesAdnan MenderesAdnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...
, Turkish prime minister 1950–1960 - Adnan NawazAdnan NawazAdnan Nawaz is a News and Sports presenter, currently working for the BBC. He can increasingly be seen presenting the news on BBC World News and has presented the sport on BBC News, the Corporation's rolling news channel in the UK, and on BBC World News since 2001...
, British sports broadcaster - Adnan PachachiAdnan PachachiAdnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Amin al-Pachachi is a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967; he again served as Permanent Representative to the UN...
, Iraqi politician - Adnan PolatAdnan PolatAdnan Polat , is a Turkish businessman born in Erzurum, a city in north-east Turkey. He is past the chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray....
, Turkish businessman - Adnan Saidi, the Malayan fought and dead in Singapore
- Adnan SamiAdnan SamiAdnan Sami is a British-born Pakistani-Indian- Canadian singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer of Pakistani origin. He currently holds Canadian citizenship and works and lives in Mumbai, India...
, Pakistani singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer - Adnan Al-ShargiAdnan Al-ShargiAdnan Al-Shargi was a former Lebanese soccer coach. He managed the Lebanon national football team during a period of thirty-five months between January 1993 and November 1995. He was sacked and replaced by former Tottenham Hotspur and Wales national football team player Terry Yorath...
, Lebanese football manager - Adnan Gulshair el ShukrijumahAdnan Gulshair el ShukrijumahBorn in Saudi Arabia, Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah is a member of al-Qaeda, who grew up in the United States and worked as a school teacher....
, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda member - Adnan TerzicAdnan TerzicAdnan Terzić was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 2002 until January 2007. Terzić is member of the SBB BiH - Union for Better Future of BiH. He is a member of the Bosniak community....
, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... - Adnan YıldızAdnan YildizAdnan Yıldız , is a former Turkish footballer who played as a defender.-External links:*...
, Turkish footballer - Adnan al-ZurufiAdnan al-ZurufiAdnan al-Zurufi was the US-appointed governor of Najaf Governorate appointed May 2004. He accused Muqtada al Sadr of constantly violating his agreements to disband the Mahdi Army....
, Iraqi politician
Surname
- Ali AdnanAli AdnanAli Adnan is an Iraqi archer.He was due to be the first person to represent Iraq in archery at the Olympic Games, having qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but the entire Iraqi delegation was banned from the Games by the International Olympic Committee due to Iraqi government...
, Iraqi archer - Azman AdnanAzman AdnanAzman Adnan is a former Malaysian footballer who last played for Negeri Sembilan FA before retiring. He is also a former member of the Malaysian pre-Olympic team and also the Malaysian national team...
, Malaysian footballer - Etel AdnanEtel AdnanEtel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist.In 2003 MELUS, the journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, called Adnan "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today."She has said, "As for any...
, Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist - Hassan AdnanHassan AdnanMohammad Hassan Adnan is a Pakistani cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Islamabad, Water and Power Development Authority, Gujranwala, Derbyshire and Lahore....
, Pakistani cricket player