Vajk (given name)

{{Short description|Male given name}}

{{Infobox given name

| name = Vajk

| image=Benczur-vajk.jpg

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| caption=Gyula Benczúr's painting: Baptism of Vajk by Adalbert of Prague

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| gender =Male

| meaning ="True man"

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| origin =Hungarian and Turkic

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Vajk, Voyk or Vojk (alternatively spelled Vayk in English, Voicu in Romanian) is an Old Hungarian masculine first name supposedly derived from the Turkic Bajik (or Bajiq or Bayk)[https://books.google.com/books?id=kNkTAQAAMAAJ&q=Vajk Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Volume 36], Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1982, p. 420-426, Cited "The Turkic original of the Old Hungarian name Vajk is Bajiq" which meaning is "True Man"http://web.axelero.hu/kesz/jel/01_12/hunyadiak.htm Hungarian: "...a törökből magyarázható. Eredeti formája Bajik. Értelme: 'Igaz Ember'A b a hangfejlődés során gyakorta alakult át v hanggá." English:..it is from turkic origin. The original form of the name is Bajik, which meaning is True Man. Letter B changed to V." or "rich, powerful".Armin Vambery, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5TFAAAAMAAJ&q=Vajk+Bajik Der ursprung der Magyaren], F. A. Brockhaus, 1882, p. 166{{Better source needed|reason=a 132-years old source is a little too old|date=May 2014}} Tatars used the name 'Bayk' till the 18th century.Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság (SOCIETY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTICS), [https://books.google.com/books?id=w9zVAAAAMAAJ&q=S%C3%B6rbe Magyar nyelv], Volume 79, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1983, p.113 More likely it is of Slavic origin from Vojko as the Romanian name Voicu.{{Cite web |title=dexonline |url=https://dexonline.ro/definitie/Voicu |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=dexonline.ro}}