Metehan
Metehan is a common masculine Turkish given name. "Metehan" is composed of two words: "Mete" and "Han". In Turkish, "Mete" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant" whereas "Han" means literally "Khan". Thus, "Metehan" means "brave khan", "galahad khan", "gallant khan".
| Gender | Masculine |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Turkish |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | mete |
| Derivation | 1. "mete" 2. "han" |
| Meaning | 2. "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", "gallant" 2. "Khan" |
| Other names | |
| Cognate(s) | Mete, Bahadır |
| See also | Baghatur |
Mete results from Turkish deformation of standard Chinese "Modu" "墨毒" (< Middle Chinese /*mək-duok/), which is a version of the name of Modu Chanyu, the founder of Xiongnu Empire. Modu 墨毒 might have transcribed the Xiongnu title reconstructed as *baɣtur, linguistically related to the Turkic honorific title "Baghatur". Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Bahadır, Batur, and as in other cognate forms.
It is theorized that Metehan and Oghuz Khagan may be the same person due to similarities in the Turko-Persian manuscripts with the Maodun biography in the Chinese sources. This was first noticed by N.Ya. Bichurin (Collection of information, pp. 56–57).