Rifat (also
transliterated as Rifaat, ar,
رفعت, , a conjugated form of the Arabic verb
رفع with the meaning "lifted", "elated", "joyous") is a masculine name. Variants also include
Refat Refat is a unisex given name borne by:
* Refat Amin (born 1953), Bangladesh politician, Member of the Bangladesh Parliament (2014–2018)
* Refat Appazov (1920–2008), Soviet and Russian rocket scientist of Crimean-Tatar descent
* Refat Chubarov ...
, Rafat, Refaat, etc. Notable people with the name include:
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Rifaat al-Assad, Syrian military personnel and politician
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Rifat Chadirji, Iraqi architect and author
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Rıfat Ilgaz
Rıfat Ilgaz (7 May 1911 – 7 July 1993) was a Turkish teacher, writer and poet.
Biography
He was born in Cide, in the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey). Ilgaz was one of Turkey’s best-known and most prolific poets ...
(1911–1993), Turkish poet
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Rifat Mustafin
Rifat Rinatovich Mustafin (russian: Рифат Ринатович Мустафин; born 12 August 1983) is a former Russian professional football player.
Club career
He played two seasons in the Russian Football National League for FC KAMAZ N ...
, Russian footballer
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Rifat Ozbek, Turkish fashion designer
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Rifaat Turk (born 1957), Israeli footballer
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Rifat Zhemaletdinov
Rifat Maratovich Zhemaletdinov (russian: Рифат Маратович Жемалетдинов, tt-Cyrl, Рифат Марат улы Җамалетдинов; born 20 September 1996) is a Russian professional football player of Tatar origin w ...
(born 1996), Russian footballer of Tatar origin
See also
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Kamal Rifaat, Egyptian military officer and politician
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Rasheek Rifaat Rasheek Rifaat is an electrical engineer at Jacobs Canada Inc. in Calgary, Alberta. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for his contributions to protection of industrial power system
An ...
, Canadian engineer
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Turkish masculine given names
Arabic masculine given names