बिरादर

Hindi

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr

Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā

Proto-Iranian *bráHtā

Old Persian 𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (b-r-a-t-a /⁠brātā⁠/)

Middle Persian [script needed] (brād, brādar)

Classical Persian بِرَادَر (birādar)bor.

Hindi बिरादर

Borrowed from Classical Persian بِرَادَر (birādar). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi برادر (bradr /⁠birādar⁠/). Doublet of भाई (bhāī), भ्राता (bhrātā), and भ्रातृ (bhrātŕ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /bɪ.ɾɑː.d̪əɾ/, [bɪ.ɾäː.d̪ɐɾ]
• Hyphenation: बि‧रा‧दर
• Rhymes: -əɾ

Noun

बिरादर • (birādar) m (Urdu spelling بِرَادَر)

1. (rare) brother

Declension

Declension of बिरादर (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बिरादर birādar	बिरादर, बिरादरान birādar, birādarān
oblique	बिरादर birādar	बिरादरों, बिरादरानों birādarõ, birādarānõ
vocative	बिरादर birādar	बिरादरो, बिरादरानो birādaro, birādarāno

Derived terms

• बिरादराना (birādrānā)
• बिरादरी (birādrī)

Further reading

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “बिरादर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3505
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “बिरादर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 734
• “बरादर”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008), “birādar”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 137.