बहादुर

See also: बहादुरी

Hindi edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian (bahādur). Compare Turkish bahadır. Compare Punjabi ਬਹਾਦਰ (bahādar) / بہادَر (bhādar), Gujarati બહાદુર (bahādur), Marathi बहाद्दर (bahāddar), Bengali বাহাদুর (bahadur), Turkish bahadır, Russian богаты́рь (bogatýrʹ).

Pronunciation edit

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bə.ɦɑː.d̪ʊɾ/, [bɐ.ɦäː.d̪ʊɾ]

Adjective edit

बहादुर • (bahādur) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling بَہَادُر)

brave, valiant
Synonyms: वीर (vīr), नायक (nāyak)

Derived terms edit

बहादुरी (bahādurī)

Noun edit

बहादुर • (bahādur) m (Urdu spelling بَہَادُر)

hero, champion

Declension edit

Declension of बहादुर (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बहादुर bahādur	बहादुर bahādur
oblique	बहादुर bahādur	बहादुरों bahādurõ
vocative	बहादुर bahādur	बहादुरो bahāduro

Descendants edit

→ English: bahadur

References edit

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बहादुर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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