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بهادر

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Persian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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Dari بهادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik баҳодур

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

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Dari بهادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik баҳодур

بهادر (bahâdor)

  1. brave, valiant, courageous
    Synonyms: شجاع (šojâ'), دلیر (dalir), دلاور (delâvar)

Proper noun

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Dari بهادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik Баҳодур

بهادر (bahâdor)

  1. a male given name, Bahador or Bahadur

Descendants

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Further reading

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