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Çelebi

Turkish title and derived names From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Çelebi (Turkish pronunciation: [tʃeleˈbi], Ottoman Turkish: چلبی) was an Ottoman title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous".[1] Çelebi also means "man of God", as an i-suffixed derivative from çalab (Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈɫap]), which means "God" in Ottoman Turkish.[2] German linguist and Turkologist Marcel Erdal, citing Baron Tiesenhausen, traces çalab back to Arabic djellaba "importer, trader, merchant" > "high social positions"; jallāb is derived from root j-l-b "to have brought, to import",[3] ultimately from West Semitic root g-l-b "to catch, to fetch".[4]

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Notable people with the title include, in approximate chronological order:

Seljuk & Ottoman Sufi family

Çelebi is a family of descendants of Rumi (13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic), who established and led the Sufi Mevlevi Order ("the whirling dervishes") for over 700 years [5][1]

Surname (post-Ottoman)

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