Gender Masculine
Usage Turkmen
Scripts Берди(Turkmen Cyrillic)
Other Forms FormsVariant transcription: Berdy (often through the Russian spelling Берды)
Meaning & History
Means "given (by God)" in Turkmen. It is derived from the past tense of the Turkmen verb bermek meaning "to give", which itself is ultimately derived from Old Turkic ber meaning "to give".A notable bearer of this name was the Turkmen writer Berdi Kerbabaýew (1894-1974).