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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Polish: of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname from the dialect word basior ‘male wolf’, basiora ‘inflorescence’, or basiora ‘sheep or ram’.
  2. Ukrainian: variant of Basarab, a regional name for someone from Bessarabia, now Moldova.
  3. Serbian: from Turkish basar ‘physical beauty’.
  4. Arabic: variant of Bishara.