Recep

Borrowed from Turkish Recep.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛdʒɛp/

Recep

1. A male given name from Turkish.
   • 2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 April 2025:

     In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader effort to consolidate power in his own hands. But that required decades of effort and multiple constitutional changes, Levitsky said. It only became fully successful after a failed 2016 coup provided a political justification for the purge.

From Ottoman Turkish رجب (recep), from Arabic رَجَب (rajab).

• IPA^(key): /ɾeˈd͡ʒep/

Recep

1. a male given name from Arabic
   1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 12th and current president of Turkey (2014–present).