Ескендір

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	ەسكەندىر
Cyrillic	Ескендір
Latin	Eskendır
Yañalif	Eskendjr

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِسْکَنْدَر (iskandar), from Arabic اَلْإِسْكَنْدَرُ m (al-ʔiskandaru), from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος m (Aléxandros).

Proper noun

Ескендір • (Eskendır)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

patronymics

• Ескендірқызы (Eskendırqyzy, female)
• Ескендірұлы (Eskendırūly, male)

 

surnames

• Ескендіров (Eskendırov, male)
• Ескендірова (Eskendırova, female)

 

Descendants

• → Russian: Ескенди́р m anim (Jeskendír)