Orkut (given name)
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Orkut
Gender: Male
Male
Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...

Origin: Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

Meaning: Holly city
Related Names: Orhan
Orhan
Orhan is a Turkish given name for males. People named Orhan include:* Orhan I, Turkish Ottoman sultan* Orhan Ademi, Swiss footballer* Asım Orhan Barut, Turkish-American theoretical physicist* Orhan Boran, Turkish radio and TV host...

, Kutalmış
Kutalmış
Kutalmış is a common masculine Turkish given name. "Kutalmış" is composed of two words: "kut" and "almış". In Turkish, "Kut" means "life force", and/or "happiness" whereas "almış" means literally " received", and/or " took". Thus, "Kutalmış" means "who received happpines ", ""who received life...

, Kutlu
Kutlu
Kutlu is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Kutlu" means "holy", "hooly", and/or "blessed".- Given name :* Kutlu Adali, Turkish Cypriot journalist* Kutlu Özmakinacı, bassist of Turkish rock band Yüksek Sadakat....



Orkut (ˈoːɾkut) is a common Turkish given name
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...

. It is composed of "Or" and "Kut". In Turkish, "Kut" means "holy". "Or" means "Greate", "togetherness", "association", and/or "cooccurrence". Therefore "Orkut" means "holy city".

People

  • Orkut Büyükkökten
    Orkut Büyükkökten
    Orkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut....

    , Turkish
    Turkish people
    Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

     software engineer who developed the social networking service orkut
    Orkut
    Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc. The service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships...

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