Altan

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Altan
Gender Male
Origin
Language(s) 1. Turkic
2. Mongolian
Meaning 1. "red dawn"
2. "golden"

Altan is a common masculine Turkish given name used also as surnamea and a Mongolian given name. Altan means golden [1] in Mongolian and red dawn in Turkic.

Given name

  • Altan Aksoy, a Turkish football player
  • Altan Erkekli, a Turkish theatre and film actor
  • Altan Erol, a Turkish professional basketball player
  • Altan Debter, an early, now lost history of the Mongols
  • Altan Khan, a Mongol ruler (1507–1582)
  • Altan Khan of the Khotgoid, a succession of rulers of north-western Mongolia in the 17th century
  • Altan Öymen, a Turkish journalist, author and former politician
  • Altan Telgey, a Mongol earth goddess
  • Altan Tobchi, a 17th-century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan
  • Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band

Surname

  • Ahmet Altan (born 1950), Turkish journalist and author
  • Çetin Altan (born 1927), Turkish writer, journalist, and former member of parliament
  • Mehmet Altan (born 1953), Turkish economist, columnist and writer
  • Francesco Tullio Altan (born 1942), Italian satire and comic book author
  • Kaan Altan, a founding member of the Turkish rock band Mavi Sakal

References

  1. Гарма Данцаранович Санжеев - The modern Mongolian language (1973), p. 24
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