Cahit
Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is also used as a surname It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid, which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". Notable people named Cahit include:
First name
- Cahit Aral, Turkish engineer and politician
- Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician
- Cahit Irgat, Turkish actor
- Cahit Karakaş, Turkish engineer and politician
- Cahit Kıraç, Turkish bureaucrat
- Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet
- Cahit Ölmez, Turkish Dutch actor
- Cahit Önel, Turkish athlete
- Cahit Ortaç, Turkish politician
- Cahit Özkan, Turkish politician
- Cahit Paşa, Turkish football player
- Cahit Süme, Turkish boxer
- Cahit Talas, Turkish academic
- Cahit Tanyol, Turkish writer and sociologist
- Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author
- Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and writer
Middle name
- Cemil Cahit Toydemir, Turkish army officer
- Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın, Turkish writer and politician
- Mehmet Cahit Turhan, Turkish engineer and civil servant
Surname
- Neriman Cahit, Turkish Cypriot poet and author