پیغمبر

Chagatai

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیغمبر (peyġambar).

Noun

پیغمبر • (peyğambar)

1. prophet

Persian

Etymology

From earlier پیغامبر (payġāmbar), from Middle Persian pgtʾmbl (payğāmbar, “messenger, apostle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /paj.ɣam.ˈbar/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣäm.bäɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣäm.bäɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣäm.bäɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ɣäm.bäɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæj.ɢæm.bæɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.ʁäm.bäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	payġambar
Dari reading?	payġambar
Iranian reading?	payġambar
Tajik reading?	payġambar

Noun

پیغمبر • (payġambar) (plural پیغمبران (payġambarān / payġambarân), or پیغمبرها (payġambar-hā / payġambar-hâ), Tajik spelling пайғамбар)

1. (formal or dated) alternative form of پیامبر (payâmbar, “prophet”)

Derived terms

• پیغمبری (peyġambari)

Related terms

• پیغام (peyġâm)
• بر (bar-)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: peyğəmbər
• → Bashkir: пәйғәмбәр (pəyğəmbər), бәйғәмбәр (bəyğəmbər)
• → Bengali: পয়গম্বর (poẏogombor)
• → Gujarati: પેગંબર (pegambar), પયગંબર (payagambar), પૈગંબર (paigambar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पैग़म्बर (paiġambar)

  Urdu: پیغمبر (paigambar)

• → Kazakh: пайғамбар (paiğambar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیغامبر (peygamber), پیغمبر (peygamber)
  • Turkish: peygamber
  • → Albanian: pejgamber
  • → Adyghe: бегъымбар (beğəmbar)
  • → Bulgarian: пейгамбер (pejgamber)
  • → Kabardian: бегъымбар (beğəmbar)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pejgamber
• → Uyghur: پەيغەمبەر (peyghember)
• → Uzbek: paygʻambar
• → Old Punjabi: ਪਿਕਾਂਬਰ (pikāmbara), ਪਿਕੰਬਰ (pikambara)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیغمبر (payġambar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɛː.ɣəm.bəɾ/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -əɾ

Noun

پَیغَمْبَر • (paiġambar) m (Hindi spelling पैग़ंबर)

1. (Islam) prophet, messenger
2. ambassador, envoy

References

• “پیغمبر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پیغمبر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.