बिरादर

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Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (birādar). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi برادر (bradr /⁠birādar⁠/). Doublet of भाई (bhāī), भ्राता (bhrātā), and भ्रातृ (bhrātŕ).

Cognates

Cognate with Bengali বেরাদর (berador), Gujarati બિરાદર (birādar), Punjabi ਬਰਾਦਰ (barādar) / بَرادَر (barādar), English brother.

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /bɪ.ɾɑː.d̪əɾ/,
Hyphenation: बि‧रा‧दर
Rhymes: -əɾ

Noun

बिरादर • (birādar) m (Urdu spelling بِرَادَر)

(rare) brother

Declension

Declension of बिरादर (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बिरादर birādar	बिरादर, बिरादरान birādar, birādarān
oblique	बिरादर birādar	बिरादरों, बिरादरानों birādarõ, birādarānõ
vocative	बिरादर birādar	बिरादरो, बिरादरानो birādaro, birādarāno

Derived terms

बिरादराना (birādrānā)
बिरादरी (birādrī)

Further reading

Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बिरादर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3505
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बिरादर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 734
“बरादर”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “birādar”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 137.

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