Dalibor (name)

Dalibor
Gender	male
Origin
Word/Name	Slavic
Meaning	dali ("far away") + bor ("fight")
Other names
Related names	Sambor
http://www.behindthename.com/name/dalibor

Dalibor is primarily a male given name of Slavic origin, but also a surname specifically in Czech Republic. The name is popular in some Western Slavic and Southern Slavic countries, such as: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.It means: fighting far away and it's derived from Slavic elements daleko meaning "far away" and boriti meaning "to fight".

There is a Bedřich Smetana's eponymous opera, based on Slavonic mythology.

People with this given name

• Dalibor Bagarić (born 1980), Croatian basketball player
• Dalibor Brazda (1921–2005), Czech-Swiss composer and conductor
• Dalibor Brozović (born 1927), Croatian linguist
• Dalibor Medic (born 1979), Austrian national trainer of Taekwon-Do
• Dalibor Stevanovič (born 1984), Slovenian football player
• Dalibor Vačkář (1906–1984), Czech composer
• Dalibor Vesely (born 1934), Czech architect
• Dalibor Šamšal (born 1985), Croatian alpine ski racer
• Dalibor z Kozojed (died 1498), 15th century Czech knight, on whom Smetana based his 1868 opera Dalibor
• Dalibor Jedlička, Czech opera singer

People with this surname

• Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech immigrants to the UK, puppeteers who made the original Pinky and Perky^[1]

See also

• Slavic names

References

1. ^ *Pinky and Perky, original show credits

External links

• http://www.behindthename.com/name/dalibor

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