Zograf

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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.

OriginGreek ζωγράφος →
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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Zograph

  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.

Origin

  1. Greekζωγράφος“painter”
  2. EnglishZograf

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”).

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“Zograf.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zograf. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zograf,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zograf.

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