Basara Family History
Basara Name Meaning
Polish Ukrainian Serbian Croatian Bosniak and Slovak: from a shortened form of Basarab an ethnic name for someone from Bessarabia now Moldova or in a transferred sense for a Wallachian (see Vlachos ). This surname is very rare in Slovakia and may be of Rusyn origin there (compare Basarab ). Polish: alternatively perhaps a nickname derived from the dialect word basior ‘male wolf’ basiora ‘inflorescence’ or basiora ‘sheep or ram’. Turkish (Başara): ornamental name or nickname derived from başarmak ‘to succeed’. Compare Basar .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022