FemaleOrigin: Arabic

Ayşe: Meaning, Origin and Pronunciation

Ayşe is a girl’s name of Arabic origin. It means “living, alive, full of life”.

Say it: eye-sheh

About the name Ayşe

Meaning: living, alive, full of life
Origin: Arabic; From Arabic ʿĀʾisha.
Gender: Female
Pronunciation: eye-sheh

Well-known bearer

Borne by ʿĀʾisha, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and daughter of the first caliph Abu Bakr.

How to pronounce Ayşe

Turkish spelling is phonetic: every letter is pronounced, and each letter always has the same sound. Our respellingeye-sheh is an approximation for English speakers. Turkish stresses syllables much more evenly than English, so avoid hitting one syllable hard. Tap the letters below for tips.

Ayş e

Letters English doesn’t haveFamiliar letters with a Turkish twist

ş
ş sounds like “sh”
ş is the sh of “ship”: Ayşe = “eye-sheh”.
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e
Final e is pronounced
A final e is never silent in Turkish: it is a short “eh”, so the name has one more syllable than an English reader might expect.
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Practice the sounds in the Turkish alphabet tool or readhow to pronounce i, dotless ı and soft g.

Ayşe with Turkish suffixes

Turkish adds case endings where English uses prepositions. With a personal name the ending is separated by anapostrophe (Ayşe'ye, Ayşe'nin), but it is still pronounced as one word. The apostrophe only marks where the name ends; the suffix itself follows the usual rules.

The last vowel of Ayşe is e, a front unrounded vowel. So two-way suffixes take e and four-way suffixes takei (vowel harmony):Ayşe'de, Ayşe'yi.

Because Ayşe ends in a vowel, a buffer letter keeps two vowels apart:y in Ayşe'yi, Ayşe'ye and Ayşe'yle, and n in the genitive Ayşe'nin.

Case forms of Ayşe
Case	Form	Example
Accusative (object)	Ayşe'yi	Ayşe'yi tanıyor musun? Do you know Ayşe?
Dative (to)	Ayşe'ye	Ayşe'ye bir mesaj yazdım. I wrote a message to Ayşe.
Locative (at / with)	Ayşe'de	Anahtarlar Ayşe'de. Ayşe has the keys. (lit. The keys are at Ayşe.)
Ablative (from)	Ayşe'den	Ayşe'den bir hediye aldım. I got a present from Ayşe.
Genitive (’s)	Ayşe'nin	Bu Ayşe'nin çantası. This is Ayşe’s bag.
Instrumental (with)	Ayşe'yle	Dün Ayşe'yle konuştum. I talked with Ayşe yesterday.

Forms are generated by TurkLogic’s tested grammar engine. See every case explained in theTurkish noun cases guide, or check the harmony of any word in thevowel harmony calculator.

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Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ayşe mean?

Ayşe is a Turkish girl’s name meaning “living, alive, full of life”. Its origin is Arabic. From Arabic ʿĀʾisha.

How do you pronounce Ayşe?

Say it roughly as “eye-sheh”, keeping every vowel short and clear. ş is the sh of “ship”: Ayşe = “eye-sheh”.

How do you add suffixes to Ayşe in Turkish?

Because Ayşe is a proper name, case endings go after an apostrophe and follow vowel harmony: Ayşe'ye (to Ayşe), Ayşe'nin (Ayşe’s), Ayşe'de (at Ayşe’s) and Ayşe'yle (with Ayşe).