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Bushnak (Arabic: بشناق, meaning "Bosnian", also transliterated Bushnaq, Boshnak, Bouchenak and Bouchnak) is a surname common among Levantines of Bosnian Muslim origin. [1] [2] Those sharing this surname are the descendants of Bosnian Muslims apprehensive of living under Christian rule after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, who immigrated to Ottoman Syria.
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Uthman (Arabic: عُثمَانُ, romanized: Uṯmānᵘ), also spelled Othman, is a male Arabic given name with the literal meaning of "the young one of [a] bustard, dragon [or] serpent." [1] It is popular as a male given name among Muslims.
Islamic traditional use of the name goes back to the Islamic leader Ali ibn Abi Talib, but the name is also present among some pre-Islamic Arabs (e.g. Banu Hanifa, and some rulers of Saba and Himyar). It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel.
Farida (Arabic: فريدة) is an Arabic feminine given name, meaning unique/ precious pearl. In Urdu it is spelled and pronounced the same way as Arabic. In Turkish it is spelled as Feride. In Persian, the name is rendered as Farideh (Persian: فریده) in the Iranian dialect, but Farida (Фарида) in the Afghan and Tajik dialects.
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The more common name حَسَن Ḥasan (as in the name of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's grandson Hasan ibn Ali), [3] coming from the Arabic language triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N, has two short vowels and a single /s/. Its meaning is 'the good' or 'the handsome'.
Another Bosnian Muslim place of pilgrimage is Ajvatovica near Prusac in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the largest Islamic traditional, religious and cultural event in Europe, and is a place where devout Bosnian Muslims remember and give thanks to the founder of the holy site, Ajvaz-dedo, whose forty day prayers were heard by Allah ...