Cizmar

The surnames: Cizmar/Cismar/Chizmar/Chismar (English), Čižmár/Čižmárova (f.) (Slovak), Čižmář/Čižmárová (f.) (Czech), Ciżmar (Polish), Čizmar (Serbian), Čizmar/Čižmar (Croatian), Csizmar (Hungarian), Čižman (Slovenian), Cizmar/Cismar/Cismaru (Romanian) and Cizmar/Cismar/Zhishman (German) have two possible origins:

toponymic origin, coming from Cismar [de] near Grömitz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany as well as Čizma in Bosnia Herzegovina;
occupational origin, literally meaning 'shoemaker, cobbler' in Romanian^[1] and Slavic^[2] languages borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چزمه‌جی (çizme).^{[citation needed]} Suffixes -ar/-an are common among Slavic and Romanian surnames.^{[citation needed]}

The surnames may refer to:

Boris Čizmar, Serbian futsal player
Albin Čižman, Slovenian slalom canoer
Tomaž Čižman, Slovenian alpine skier
Miloš Čižmář (cs), Czech archaeologist
Josef Čižmář (cs), Czech folklorist
Joseph von Zhishman (a.k.a. Josip/Jožef Čižman), Austrian lawyer and specialist in canon law
Maria Mirabela Cismaru, Romanian singer
Paula Cizmar, American academic, playwright and librettist
Richard Chizmar, American writer, publisher and editor.
Valérie Čižmárová [cs] (1952-2005), Czech singer of Slovak origin

References

^ "Cizmar in English - Romanian-English Dictionary | Glosbe". glosbe.com. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
^ "čizmar in English - Croatian-English Dictionary | Glosbe". glosbe.com. Retrieved 2023-10-11.

Surname list

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Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer

Celtic

Quéré
Gracie, Grassie, Grassick

Germanic

DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter
Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers
Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Schumann, Shuman, Shumann,
Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel

Romance

Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar
Sutor
De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto
Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari
Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier, Le Sueur, Sabatier
Crispino
Sapateiro, Zapatero