ابوبکر

See also: أبو بكر

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr). By surface analysis, ابو (abū / abu) +‎ بکر (bakr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.buː.ˈbakr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.buː.bákɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.buː.bákɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.buː.bákɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.bu.bákɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.buː.bǽkʰʲɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.bu.bákɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	abūbakr
Dari reading?	abūbakr
Iranian reading?	abubakr
Tajik reading?	abubakr

Proper noun

ابوبکر • (abūbakr / abubakr) (Tajik spelling Абубакр)

1. (Islam) Abu Bakr (a senior companion, the closest friend, and, through the marriage of his daughter Aisha, the father-in-law of Muhammad, recognized in Sunni Islam as the first of Muhammad's rightly-guided successors (the Rashidun caliphs))

Related terms

• عمر (umar / omar)
• عثمان (usmān / osmân)
• علی (alī / ali)