بهادر

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭ᠋ᠠᠲᠤᠷ (baɣatur), attested after the Mongol conquest in the 1200s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ba.hɑː.ˈðuɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːɔː.d̪úɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɦɒː.d̪óɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɔ.d̪úɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bahāḏur
Dari reading?	bahādur
Iranian reading?	bahâdor
Tajik reading?	bahodur

Noun

بهادر • (bahâdor) (plural بهادران (bahâdorân))

1. paladin, champion, hero

   Synonyms: قهرمان (qahremân), دلاور (delâvar), یل (yal), گرد (gord), پهلوان (pahlavân)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:

     بهادران و دلیرند خیل مژگانت
     که وقت معرکه هستند هر یکی صفدر

     bahādurān u dalēr-and xayl-i mužagānat
     ki waqt-i ma'rakā hastand har yakē safdar

     The army of your eyelashes are valiant paladins,
     Each of whom break the enemy's ranks at the time of war.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Adjective

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. brave, valiant, courageous

   Synonyms: شجاع (šojâ'), دلیر (dalir), دلاور (delâvar)

Proper noun

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. a male given name

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bahadır
• → Bashkir: баһадир (bahadir)
• → Bengali: বাহাদুর (bahadur)
• → Gujarati: બહાદુર (bahādur)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बहादुर (bahādur)

  Urdu: بَہَادُر (bahādur)

  • → English: bahadur

• → Malay: bahadur
  • Indonesian: bahadur
• → Marathi: बहाद्दर (bahāddar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਾਦਰ (bahādar)

  Shahmukhi script: بہادَر (bhādar)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بهادر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim