بهادر
Appearance
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭ᠋ᠠᠲᠤᠷ (baɣatur), attested after the Mongol conquest in the 1200s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ba.hɑː.ˈðuɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bæ.ɦɒː.d̪óɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bä.ɦɔ.d̪úɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | bahāḏur |
Dari reading? | bahādur |
Iranian reading? | bahâdor |
Tajik reading? | bahodur |
Noun
[edit]Dari | بهادر |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | баҳодур |
بهادر • (bahâdor) (plural بهادران (bahâdorân))
- paladin, champion, hero
- 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.
- bahādurān u dalēr-and xayl-i mužagānat
Adjective
[edit]Dari | بهادر |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | баҳодур |
بهادر • (bahâdor)
Proper noun
[edit]Dari | بهادر |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Баҳодур |
بهادر • (bahâdor)
- a male given name, Bahador or Bahadur
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بهادر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بهادر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press