Tarık: Meaning, Origin and Pronunciation
Tarık is a boy’s name of Arabic origin. It means “night visitor; the morning star”.
About the name Tarık
- Meaning
- night visitor; the morning star
- Origin
- Arabic
- From Arabic ṭāriq, also the title of the 86th sura.
- Gender
- Male
- Pronunciation
- tah-ruhk
Well-known bearer
Gibraltar takes its name from Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (Jabal Ṭāriq, “Tarik’s mountain”).
How to pronounce Tarık
Turkish spelling is phonetic: every letter is pronounced, and each letter always has the same sound. Our respellingtah-ruhk 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.
Letters English doesn’t haveFamiliar letters with a Turkish twist
- ı
ı is the dotless i
ı is a short, unrounded vowel like the a in “sofa”, made further back in the mouth. It is a different letter from i, so never replace it with “ee”.
Read the dotless ı guide → - r
r is tapped
Turkish r is a light tap of the tongue, like the tt in American “better”; at the end of a word it often sounds breathy.
Hear r in the alphabet tool →
Practice the sounds in the Turkish alphabet tool or readhow to pronounce i, dotless ı and soft g.
Tarık with Turkish suffixes
Turkish adds case endings where English uses prepositions. With a personal name the ending is separated by anapostrophe (Tarık'a, Tarık'ın), 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 Tarık is ı, a back unrounded vowel. So two-way suffixes take a and four-way suffixes takeı (vowel harmony):Tarık'ta, Tarık'ı.
Because Tarık ends in a consonant, vowel-initial endings attach directly (Tarık'ı, Tarık'a) with no buffer letter.
The final consonant is voiceless (one of the “Fıstıkçı Şahap” letters f, s, t, k, ç, ş, h, p), so the d of the locative and ablative endingshardens to t:-ta and -tan: Tarık'ta, Tarık'tan.
Names never show consonant softening in writing (Tarık'a), but in everyday speech the final consonant is usually softened, so Tarık'a tends to sound like “Tarığa”.
| Case | Form | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Accusative (object) | Tarık'ı | Tarık'ı tanıyor musun? Do you know Tarık? |
| Dative (to) | Tarık'a | Tarık'a bir mesaj yazdım. I wrote a message to Tarık. |
| Locative (at / with) | Tarık'ta | Anahtarlar Tarık'ta. Tarık has the keys. (lit. The keys are at Tarık.) |
| Ablative (from) | Tarık'tan | Tarık'tan bir hediye aldım. I got a present from Tarık. |
| Genitive (’s) | Tarık'ın | Bu Tarık'ın çantası. This is Tarık’s bag. |
| Instrumental (with) | Tarık'la | Dün Tarık'la konuştum. I talked with Tarık 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 Tarık mean?
Tarık is a Turkish boy’s name meaning “night visitor; the morning star”. Its origin is Arabic. From Arabic ṭāriq, also the title of the 86th sura.
How do you pronounce Tarık?
Say it roughly as “tah-ruhk”, keeping every vowel short and clear. ı is a short, unrounded vowel like the a in “sofa”, made further back in the mouth. It is a different letter from i, so never replace it with “ee”.
How do you add suffixes to Tarık in Turkish?
Because Tarık is a proper name, case endings go after an apostrophe and follow vowel harmony: Tarık'a (to Tarık), Tarık'ın (Tarık’s), Tarık'ta (at Tarık’s) and Tarık'la (with Tarık).
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