بهادر

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ba.hɑː.ˈðuɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːɑː.d̪ʊ́ɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːɔː.d̪úɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.ɦɒː.d̪óɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.ɦɔ.d̪úɾ]

Readings

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

Noun

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

Dari	بهادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	баҳодур

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. brave, valiant, courageous

   Synonyms: شجاع (šojâ'), دلیر (dalir), دلاور (delâvar)

Proper noun

Dari	بهادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Баҳодур

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. a male given name, Bahador or Bahadur

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: bahadır
• → Bashkir: баһадир (bahadir)
• → Bengali: বাহাদুর (bahadur)
• → Gujarati: બહાદુર (bahādur)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बहादुर (bahādur)

  Urdu: بَہَادُر (bahādur)

  • → English: bahadur

• → Malay: bahadur
  • Indonesian: bahadur
• → Marathi: बहाद्दर (bahāddar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਾਦਰ (bahādar)

  Shahmukhi script: بہادَر (bhādar)

Further reading

• 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