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Spahić

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Spahić
Origin
Language(s)Bosnian and Croatian via Turkish from Persian
Meaningdescendant of a sipahi/cavalryman
Region of originCroatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina
Other names
Variant form(s)Spahic, Spahich
See alsoSpahija, Spahia, Sipahioğlu, Spaho

Spahić (IPA: [ˈspaxitɕ]) or Spahic/Spahich is a Bosnian and Croatian surname. It is derived from the Turkish term sipahi (from Persian: سپاهی (sepāhī) with the meaning "soldier") for a cavalryman by adding the Serbo-Croatian surname forming suffix -ić.

There is a village in Croatia 15 km from Bosiljevo (Croatia) on the Kupa river which borders Slovenia called Spahići with a population of approximately 57.

In some cases within Bosnia and Herzegovina, those who bear the last name of Spahić are most likely to come from, or have relatives that inhabit the city/municipality of Zenica.


People with the surname include: