name
Salavat
sah-lah-VAHT
sɑːlɑːˈvɑːtListen
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Syllable breakdown
Salavat
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Bashkir (Russia)
- Meaning
- a Bashkir masculine name meaning prayer of blessing or salutation upon the Prophet, from the Arabic salawat; made eternally famous in Bashkir history by Salavat Yulaev, the Bashkir poet-warrior and national hero who led the Bashkir forces alongside Yemelyan Pugachev in the great peasant uprising of 1773 to 1775; Salavat Yulaev is celebrated as the national hero of Bashkortostan, his image appears on the republic's coat of arms, and the Ufa ice hockey team bears his name
- Gender
- male
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