"Zograf" meaning in English

See Zograf in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Zograph [alternative]
Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|mk|-}} Macedonian, {{der|en|bg|-}} Bulgarian, {{der|en|sh|-}} Serbo-Croatian, {{der|en|el|ζωγράφος||painter}} Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), {{suf|el|ζωή|-γράφος|nocat=1|t1=life|t2=scribe}} ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”) Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: Zograf
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