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Zograf

Zograf proper noun: a surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.

Proper noun

Zograf

  1. A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.

Forms of Zograf

alternative formZograph

Origin of Zograf

Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).

Questions about Zograf

What does Zograf mean?
Zograf means a surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.
What part of speech is Zograf?
Zograf is a proper noun.

Words near Zograf in the dictionary

  1. Zogist
  2. Zogists
  3. Zognald
  4. zogo
  5. zogos
  6. Zograf
  7. zograscope
  8. zograscopes
  9. zograscopic
  10. zogslave
  11. zogslop

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