Zograf.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.