See also: بزار, تزار, and براز

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بَرَارٍ (barārinpl

  1. plural of بَرِّيَّة (barriyya)

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Bakhtiari Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia bqi

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (brād, brâdar), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (brātā), from Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Compare Northern Kurdish bira.

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برار (transliteration needed)

  1. brother

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From Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (brother). Compare Hindi भाई (bhāī).

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برار (braár)

  1. brother

Mazanderani edit

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From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

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برار (brâr)

  1. brother

Persian edit

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Colloquial form of برادر (barādar) or Tajik бародар (barodar) in some regional dialects.[1] Most notably Hazaragi in Afghanistan but also some Iranian Dialects.[2]

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Dari برار
Iranian Persian
Tajik бирор

برار (birār)

  1. (Hazaragi or dialectal) brother, bro

References edit

  1. ^
    (Can we date this quote?), “برار”, in Abadis[1]:
    برار - (گویش) برادر
    Birâr - (Dialect) Barâdar
  2. ^
    2012 March 20, Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, “Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica”, in iranicaonline.org[2], retrieved 2023-01-07:
    biror-û “brothers.”