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
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Paula Cizmar (born 1949) is an American academic, playwright and librettist. Cizmar's work has been selected for EnVision, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and...
"Arabian Prince: New Funky Nation". HipHopDX. Retrieved 23 August 2015. Martin Cizmar. "Arabian Prince: What Happened After N.W.A. and the Posse?". Phoenix New...
(Interview). Interviewed by Lambdin Meyer, Diana. Retrieved August 18, 2020. Cizmar, Martin (August 21, 2019). "How Heidi Gardner went from a hairstylist taking...
October 28, 2014. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Martin Cizmar, "Ice Cube is one of rap's original gangsters, but he is also one of hip...
Psychiatry. 2 (3): 233–238. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00117-5. PMID 26359901. Cizmar, Martin (2017-04-11). "The Rise and Fall of Sinsemilla Tips, Corvallis'...
from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015. Cizmar, Martin (May 9, 2017). "I Think We've Got a Problem: An Oral History of...
appearance, among several others, in the Posse album's cover photo [Martin Cizmar, "Whatever happened to N.W.A's posse?", LA Weekly, 6 May 2010]. In any case...
Jimmy Butler. "Sugar, We're Goin Down" The Phoenix New Times writer Martin Cizmar wrote that "Sugar, We're Goin Down" was possibly "the most listened-to emo...
musician who worked with top names, dies". SFGATE. Retrieved January 30, 2023. Cizmar, Martin (December 17, 2017). "Ralph Carney, Legendary Saxophonist and Recent...