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 near Grömitz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany as well as Čizma in Bosnia Herzegovina;
• occupational origin, literally meaning 'shoemaker, cobbler' in Romanian and Slavic languages borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چزمه‌جی (çizme). Suffixes -ar/-an are common among Slavic and Romanian surnames.

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 (1952-2005), Czech singer of Slovak origin