Girl
Serap
Serap is a familiar Turkish girls’ name meaning mirage, the distant appearance of water in the desert.
Meaning
Serap means mirage: an image that looks like water in the desert even though no water is there. The name carries the same meaning as the word for this optical illusion.
Origin
The name comes into Turkish from the Arabic word sarāb. In Turkish, it is used both as an everyday word for mirage and as a girls’ name.
In recent years
Serap was long among the most chosen names, appearing in eighteen earlier top-one-hundred lists and reaching a best position of twenty-fifth. It is absent from the latest official top one hundred but remains a recognisable classic from earlier generations.
How does it look on a plaque?
On a Meşgalem wooden name plaque, Serap paired with a birth date makes a simple keepsake of a baby’s first days.
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