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This page lists entries 137–202 of 202 (Kaynar … Zemzem), ordered by national rank and then alphabetically. The introduction and charts are on page 1.

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#	Surname	Meaning	Origin	Letters
137	Kaynar	boiling; spring	Turkic	6
138	Kaynarca	spring	Turkic	8
139	Kırkpınar	forty springs	Turkic	9
140	Kızılçay	red stream	Turkic	8
141	Kızılırmak	the Kızılırmak, “red river”	Turkic	10
142	Kotra	cutter (sailing boat)	French	5
143	Kuban	the Kuban river and region		5
144	Kuruçay	dry brook	Turkic	7
145	Küçükçağlayan	little cascade	Turkic	13
146	Küçükvardar	little Vardar (river)	Other	11
147	Marmara	the Sea of Marmara	Greek	7
148	Mavituna	the blue Danube	Other	8
149	Menderes	the Meander river	Greek	8
150	Mercan	coral	Arabic	6
151	Meriç	the Maritsa river	Other	5
152	Meriçliler	the people from Meriç	Other	10
153	Müren	river (Mongolian)	Mongolic	5
154	Nehir	river	Arabic	5
155	Orhon	the Orkhon River		5
156	Örkün	the Orkhon river		5
157	Özkaynak	true source, pure spring	Turkic	8
158	Özpınar	pure spring	Turkic	7
159	Özsu	pure water	Turkic	4
160	Öztuna	pure Danube	Other	6
161	Pınar	spring	Turkic	5
162	Pınarbaşı	head of the spring	Turkic	9
163	Sakarya	the Sakarya river and province	Greek	7
164	Sakpınar	watchful spring	Turkic	8
165	Samurçay	Samur brook	Turkic	8
166	Sazak	strong wind; reed bed; myrtle	Turkic	5
167	Sedef	mother-of-pearl	Arabic	5
168	Selcan	soul lively as a torrent	Persian	6
169	Seyhan	the river Seyhan (Adana)	Other	6
170	Seyhun	the Syr Darya river	Arabic	6
171	Seyyal	fluid, flowing	Arabic	6
172	Soğukçay	cold brook	Turkic	8
173	Su	water	Turkic	2
174	Sucu	water seller, water carrier	Turkic	4
175	Sucuoğlu	son of the water seller	Turkic	8
176	Suda	very fortunate; in the water	Arabic	4
177	Susuz	waterless, arid	Turkic	5
178	Şar	sound of running water	Turkic	3
179	Talay	sea, ocean	Mongolic	5
180	Tangöze	spring of dawn	Turkic	7
181	Tanpınar	spring of dawn	Turkic	8
182	Tansu	dawn water	Turkic	5
183	Taşan	overflowing	Turkic	5
184	Taşar	overflowing, exuberant	Turkic	5
185	Taşbulak	stone spring	Turkic	8
186	Taşğın	exuberant, overflowing	Turkic	6
187	Taşkın	overflowing, exuberant	Turkic	6
188	Taşpınar	spring in the rock	Turkic	8
189	Tufan	deluge, tempest	Arabic	5
190	Tuna	the Danube	Other	4
191	Tunalı	from the Danube region	Other	6
192	Uluçay	the great stream	Turkic	6
193	Vardar	name of a Balkan river	Other	6
194	Yeğinsu	strong water	Turkic	7
195	Yelken	sail	Turkic	6
196	Yenersu	overcoming water	Turkic	7
197	Yeniçay	new stream	Turkic	7
198	Yeşilçay	green stream	Turkic	8
199	Yeşilırmak	the Yeşilırmak river; green river	Turkic	10
200	Yeşilnil	green Nile	Greek	8
201	Yüzer	a hundred each, or swims	Turkic	5
202	Zemzem	the Zamzam well and its water	Arabic	6