Sadik (surname) explained

Sadik (Arabic: صديق ) is an Arabic origin surname which is also used as a masculine given name. It means "friend"^[1] and "righteous and virtuous person."^[2] The word is used as Sadık in Turkish, and it was first recorded in Atabetü'l-Hakayık in the 12th century.^[2]

Notable people with the surname include:

Sadik

• Irfan Sadik (born 1999), Albanian–Finnish football player
• Janette Sadik-Khan (born 1961), American civil servant
• Mahmud Sadik (born 1952), citizen of Afghanistan who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
• Nafis Sadik (1929–2022), Pakistani physician
• Omar Sadik (born 2004), Moroccan football player
• Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), Nigerian chemist
• Sadik Mohammed Symon (born 1985), known as Symon Sadik, Bangladeshi film actor
• Shalom Sadik (born 1980), Israeli scholar of Jewish philosophy
• Shibli Sadik (1941–2010), Bangladeshi film director
• Sullemana Sadik (born 1960), Ghanaian boxer
• Xhafer Sadik (1874–1945), Albanian leader of the Bektashi Order

Sadık

• Kamer Sadık (1911–1986), Turkish actor of Armenian origin

Notes and References

1. Web site: صديق. Reverso Dictionary. 13 January 2021.
2. Web site: Sadık Kelime Kökeni, Kelimesinin Anlamı. Etimoloji. tr. 27 May 2024. Sadık. Origin and meaning of the word.