Folio § ozan
Ozan
Bard, poet-singer
The story of the name
The wandering singer-poet — also used in Kurdish.
Etymology
Root: ozan · Old Turkic
Ozan is the Old Turkic word for the wandering bard — the same tradition that under Kurdish auspices is called dengbêj. The name passed into Kurdish naming through the long shared geography of Anatolia.
Name family
- Dengbêj · cognate
- Stran · cognate
Linguistic parallels
- Ozan Turkiska — Samma
Updated: 2026-05-02