Çağla is a
Turkish female given name that originates from the word
çağlamak, meaning "the sound of flowing water".
The male equivalent of the name is
Çağlar.
Etymology
The name Çağla originates from the
Turkish verb çağlamak, meaning "the sound of flowing water", which evolved from the
Proto-Turkic
Proto-Turkic is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Turkic languages that was spoken by the Proto-Turks before their divergence into the various Turkic peoples. Proto-Turkic separated into Oghur (western) and Common Tu ...
''çaġıla-'', meaning "(river) to flow with sound", both deriving from the Proto-Turkic ''çağ'' or ''çaw'', meaning "sound".
Çağla is also known to mean "unripe fruit", originating from the
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
چغاله (čâğâle). However, it may have been influenced by the
Turkic çağ or the
Mongolic цаг, both meaning "time" and "season".
Given names
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Çağla Baş
Çağla Baş Atakal (born Çağla Baş on 26 July 1992), also known as Çağla Atakal, is a Turkish female paralympic shooter competing in the air rifle events. She qualified to represent Turkey at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro ...
(born 1992), Turkish wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic shooter
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Çağla Büyükakçay
Çağla Büyükakçay (; born 28 September 1989) is a Turkish professional tennis player. She won her first title at her home tournament in Istanbul becoming the first Turkish woman to lift a WTA Tour title.
She has won 12 singles and 1 ...
(born 1989), Turkish tennis player: She has won ten singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
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Çağla Demirsal
Çağla Demirsal (born January 23, 1995) is a Turkish ice dancer
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championshi ...
(born 1995), Turkish ice dancer
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Çağla Korkmaz
Çağla Korkmaz (born November 14, 1990) is a Turkish-German female football forward currently playing in the German 2. Bundesliga for 1. FC Lübars with jersey number 8. She is a member of the Turkey women's team.
Early life
Çağla Korkmaz ...
(born 1990), Turkish-German women's footballer
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Çağla Kubat
Çağla Kubat (; born 16 November 1978) is a Turkish people, Turkish actress, model, windsurfer and beauty pageant titleholder. She is member of Fenerbahçe SW, Fenerbahçe sailing & windsurfing team. She is 5 feet 10 (1.80m) tall.
She was born ...
(born 1979), Turkish model, actress and windsurfer
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Çağla Yaman
Çağla Yaman, aka Çağla Yılmaz, (born April 1, 1981) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for İzmir BB GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the center back p ...
(born 1981), Turkish handball player
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Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş
Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş (born March 1, 1991) is a Turkish yacht racer. The tall athlete at is a student of architecture at the Okan University in Istanbul.
Biography
Dönertaş was born on March 1, 1991, in Istanbul, Turkey. She began with ...
(born 1991), Turkish yachtracer
See also
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Çağlar, a Turkish given name and surname
References
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Turkish feminine given names
Turkish feminine given names from Turkic languages
Feminine given names