Cahit

Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد jāhid), which means "effort, strive" or "endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb jahada (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious".

People named Cahit include:

Cahit Arf (1910–1997), Turkish mathematician
Cahit Külebi (1917–1997), Turkish poet
Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish footballer
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), Turkish poet and author
Cahit Kayaoğlu, Turkish Actor (Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu)

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