Taner
Encyclopedia
Taner is a Turkish
male first name and also a family name
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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,...
male first name and also a family name
Family name
A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
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Meaning
Taner is composed of the two nouns tan (dawn) and er (soldier, brave/dauntless person) and can be translated as "man of the dawn".Taner as a given name
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(1985−), weightlifting champion