اسکندر

Persian

Alternative forms

• سِکَنْدَر (sekandar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْكَنْدَر (ʔiskandar), from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔis.kan.ˈdaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.kʰän̪.d̪ǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.kʰän̪.d̪ǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.kʰän̪.d̪ǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.kʰän̪.d̪ǽɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.kʰʲæn̪.d̪ǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.kʰän̪.d̪ǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	iskandar
Dari reading?	iskandar
Iranian reading?	eskandar
Tajik reading?	iskandar

Proper noun

Dari	اسکندر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Искандар

إِسْكَنْدَر • (eskandar)

1. a male given name, Eskandar or Iskandar, from Arabic [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Alexander

   اسکندر مقدونی ― eskandar-e maqduni ― Alexander the Great (literally, “Alexander the Macedonian”)

Related terms

• الکساندر (aleksânder)

Descendants

• → Bashkir: Искәндәр (İskəndər)
• → Bengali: ইস্কান্দর (iskandor), সিকান্দর (śikandor)
• → Kazakh: Ескендір (Eskendır)
  • → Russian: Ескенди́р m anim (Jeskendír)
• → Hindustani: (via سِکَنْدَر (sekandar))

  Urdu: سِکَنْدَر (sikandar)

  Hindi: सिकंदर (sikandar)

• → Punjabi: sikaṉdar (via سِکَنْدَر (sekandar))

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਕੰਦਰ

  Shahmukhi script: سِکَن٘دَر

• → Ottoman Turkish: اسكندر (İskender) (see there for further descendants)
  • Turkish: İskender
  • → Albanian: Skënder
  • → Azerbaijani: İsgəndər
  • → Karakalpak: İskender
  • → Tatar: İskändär
  • → Turkmen: Isgender
  • → Uyghur: ئىسكەندەر (iskender)
  • → Zazaki: İskendero
• → Pashto: سکندر (sikandar) (via سِکَنْدَر (sekandar))
• → Uzbek: Iskandar