Kâzım as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kâzım

What is the meaning of the name Kâzım ?

The baby name Kâzım is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈcaː.zɯm/.

Kâzım is Arabic, Turkish in Origin.

Kâzım is the Turkish spelling of Arabic Kāẓim, كاظم, an active participle formed from the verb kaẓama, to restrain or suppress, especially anger. The consonantal root k-ẓ-m carries the sense of holding something in, and the participial pattern fāʿil gives the literal sense one who restrains or controls. Turkish preserves the long Arabic ā with â and writes the final vowel as dotless ı.

As a Muslim given name, Kazim appears in Arabic and Persian contexts and entered Ottoman Turkish naming as Kâzım or Kazım. A major religious association is Mūsā al-Kāẓim, the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam, whose epithet helped keep the name visible beyond Arabia. In republican Turkey the circumflex is often omitted in everyday writing, though dictionaries and name lists may retain Kâzım to mark vowel length and palatalization.

⚙ Kâzım is an uncommon pick. There are only 20 recorded uses of it in our data, from 2 countries.