बहादुर

बहादुर

See also: बहादुरी

Hindi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. brave, valiant

Synonyms

• (brave): वीर (vīr)

Derived terms

• बहादुरी (bahādurī)

Noun

बहादुर • (bahādur) m (Urdu spelling بَہَادُر‎)

1. hero, champion

Declension

Declension of बहादुर (masc cons-stem)

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

Descendants

• → English: bahadur

References

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