Cahit
Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد jāhid), which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious".
People named Cahit include:
- Cahit Arf (1910–1997), Turkish mathematician
- Cahit Külebi (1917–1997), Turkish poet
- Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish footballer
- Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), Turkish poet and author
- Cahit Kayaoğlu, Turkish Actor (Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu)
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