A surname from Irish.

The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of Middle Eastern culture

(transitive) To bend; to crook. / (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course. / (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

Of or pertaining to the Artuqid dynasty: a Turkmen dynasty that ruled in Western Armenia, Northern Syria and Northern Iraq in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.