Kemal

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Kemal

1. A male given name

• Malek

From Ottoman Turkish كمال, from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection, maturity”).

• IPA^(key): /ceˈmɑlʲ/
• Hyphenation: Ke‧mal

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Kemal

1. a male given name from Arabic

(In relation to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)

• English: Kemalist, Kemalism

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كمال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1038
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kemal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük