Cizmar
The surnames: Cizmar/Cismar/Chizmar/Chismar (English), Čižmár/Čižmárova (f.) (Slovak), Čižmář/Čižmárová (f.) (Czech), Ciżmar (Polish), Čizmar (Serbian), Čizmar/Čižmar (Croatian), Csizmar (Hungarian), Čižman (Slovenian), Cizmar/Cismar/Cismaru (Romanian) and Cizmar/Cismar/Zhishman (German) have two possible origins:
- toponymic origin, coming from Cismar [de] near Grömitz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany as well as Čizma in Bosnia Herzegovina;
- occupational origin, literally meaning 'shoemaker, cobbler' in Romanian[1] and Slavic[2] languages borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چزمهجی (çizme).[citation needed] Suffixes -ar/-an are common among Slavic and Romanian surnames.[citation needed]
The surnames may refer to:
- Boris Čizmar, Serbian futsal player
- Albin Čižman, Slovenian slalom canoer
- Tomaž Čižman, Slovenian alpine skier
- Miloš Čižmář (cs), Czech archaeologist
- Josef Čižmář (cs), Czech folklorist
- Joseph von Zhishman (a.k.a. Josip/Jožef Čižman), Austrian lawyer and specialist in canon law
- Maria Mirabela Cismaru, Romanian singer
- Paula Cizmar, American academic, playwright and librettist
- Richard Chizmar, American writer, publisher and editor.
- Valérie Čižmárová [cs] (1952-2005), Czech singer of Slovak origin
See also
- All pages with titles containing Cizmar
- All pages with titles containing Cizmarova
- All pages with titles containing Cizman
- All pages with titles containing Cismar
- All pages with titles containing Cismarova
- Cismar Abbey
- List of Serbo-Croatian words of Turkish origin
References
Surname list
This page lists people with the surname Cizmar. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
- v
- t
- e
Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer
- DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter
- Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers
- Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Schuster, Shoemark, Schumann, Shumaker, Shoemaker,Shuster, Shuman, Shumann,
- Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel
- Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar
- Sutor
- De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto
- Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari
- Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier, Le Sueur, Sabaté , Sabater Sabatier
- Crispino
- Sapateiro, Zapatero
- borrowings from Slavic: Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu
- Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko
- Cizmar/Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman
- Łatacz
- Sapozhnikov
- Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk
- Šuštar (from Schuster)
- Szydło
- Kopitar