Shukri
Appearance
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic |
Meaning | Thanking |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Shoukri, Choukri, Shoukry, Shokry, Choucri, Shokri, Chokri |
Shukri (Template:Lang-ar) (Template:Lang-tr) is an Arabic name for males meaning "thanking", "thankful", "of thanks" or "grateful". It is the masculine active participle of the verb شَكَرَ, "to be thankful". The feminine form of the name is "Shukriya" (شكريّة) or Şukriye in Turkish. It can be used as either a given name or surname. Another Arabic name that is similar in meaning is Shakir (Feminine form: Shakira).
Given name
- Choukri Abahnini (born 1960), pole vault athlete from Tunisia
- Shukri al-Quwatli (1891 – 1967), president of Syria from 1943 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1958
- Choucri Atafi (born 1981), amateur Moroccan Greco-Roman wrestler
- Chokri Belaid (1964 - 2013), Tunisian lawyer and politician
- Chokri El Ouaer (born 1966), former Tunisian football goalkeeper
- Shukri Ghanem (born 1942), former General Secretary of the People's Committee in Libya
- Shukri Hussein Gure (born 1978), Somali politician
- Shukri Mustafa, Egyptian Islamist
- Choukri Ouaïl, Algerian footballer
- Shoukry Sarhan (1925 - 1997), Egyptian actor
- Shukri Toefy (born 1984), Cape Town based film producer
Surname
- Abdel Rahman Shokry, Egyptian poet
- Alawi Shukri, Emirati cricketer
- Andrew Wagih Shoukry (born 1990), Egyptian professional squash player
- Shoukri brothers, Andre Khalef Shoukri and Ihab Shoukri, a pair of Egyptian-Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries
- Hassan Bey Shukri, co-founded the Muslim National Associations (MNA)
- Ibrahim Shoukry (1916 - 2008), Egyptian politician
- Islam Shokry, Egyptian footballer currently playing for Egyptian club "Tersana"
- Mahmoud Shokry, chief of staff of the Egyptian Army
- Mamdouh Shoukri, seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University
- Mohamed Choukri (1935 - 2003), Moroccan author and novelist
- Mohammad Shukri (cricketer) (born 1986), Malaysian cricketer
- Muhammad Shukri (1861 - 1919), Christian convert who became a missionary by the name of "Johannes Avetaranian"
- Monia Chokri (born 1983), Canadian actress
- Moustapha Choukri (1945 - 1980), Moroccan football midfielder
- Nancy Shukri, Malaysian politician
- Sameh Shoukry (born 1952), Egyptian career diplomat
- Suhaizi Shukri (born 1979), Malaysian football referee
Middle name
- Emile Shukri Habibi (1922 - 1996) Palestinian/Israeli Arab writer and communist politician
- Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (born 1966), Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic
Places
- Shokri Kola, a village in Kheyrud Kenar Rural District, in the Central District of Nowshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran