برادر

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برادر (barâdar, berâdar).

Noun

برادر • (birader) (plural برادرلر)

  1. brother
    Synonym: قارداش (kardaş)

Descendants

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برادر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 744

Persian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian (brād, brādar), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (brātā), from Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognate with English brother.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? birāḏar, barāḏar
Dari reading? birādar
Iranian reading? barâdar
Tajik reading? barodar
  • Audio (Iran):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ar

Noun

Dari برادر
Iranian Persian
Tajik бародар

برادر • (barādar / barâdar or birādar / berâdar) (plural برادران or برادرها)

  1. brother
    Synonyms: داداش (dādāš / dâdâš), دادر (dādar / dâdar), اخوی (axawī / axavi), کاکا (kākā / kâkâ) (dialectal)
    برادرم می‌خواد با زنی ازدواج کنه.
    barâdaram mi-xâd bâ zan-i ezdevâj kone.
    My brother wants to get married to some woman. (Implied is that the brother has chosen a specific woman, but the speaker is not acquainted with her.)
  2. (Iran, military) comrade
  3. (Iran, colloquial) dude (term of address for man)
    Synonyms: داداش (dādāš / dâdâš), اخوی (axawī / axavi)

Inflection

Possessive forms of برادر
singular plural
1st person singular
(“my”) 		برادرم (barâdaram) برادرانم، برادرام△ (barâdarấnam, barâdarấm△)
2nd person singular
(“your”) 		برادرت (barâdarat) برادرانت، برادرات△ (barâdarấnat, barâdarất△)
3rd person singular
(“his, her, its”) 		برادرش (barâdaraš) برادرانش، برادراش△ (barâdarấnaš, barâdarấš△)
1st plural
(“our”) 		برادرمان، برادرمون△ (barâdaremân, barâdaremun△) برادرانمان، برادرامون△ (barâdarấnemân, barâdarấmun△)
2nd plural
(“your”) 		برادرتان، برادرتون△ (barâdaretân, barâdaretun△) برادرانتان، برادراتون△ (barâdarấnetân, barâdarấtun△)
3rd plural
(“their”) 		برادرشان، برادرشون△ (barâdarešân, barâdarešun△) برادرانشان، برادراشون△ (barâdarấnešân, barâdarấšun△)

△ Colloquial.

Possessive forms of برادر
singular plural
1st person singular
(“my”) 		برادرم (barâdaram) برادرهایم، برادرهام، برادرام△ (barâdar-hấyam, barâdarấm△)
2nd person singular
(“your”) 		برادرت (barâdarat) برادرهایت، برادرهات، برادرات△ (barâdar-hấyat, barâdarất△)
3rd person singular
(“his, her, its”) 		برادرش (barâdaraš) برادرهایش، برادرهاش، برادراش△ (barâdar-hấyaš, barâdarấš△)
1st plural
(“our”) 		برادرمان، برادرمون△ (barâdaremân, barâdaremun△) برادرهایمان، برادرهامون، برادرامون△ (barâdar-hấyemân, barâdarấmun△)
2nd plural
(“your”) 		برادرتان، برادرتون△ (barâdaretân, barâdaretun△) برادرهایتان، برادرهاتون، برادراتون△ (barâdar-hấyetân, barâdarấtun△)
3rd plural
(“their”) 		برادرشان، برادرشون△ (barâdarešân, barâdarešun△) برادرهایشان، برادرهاشون، برادراشون△ (barâdar-hấyešân, barâdarấšun△)

△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants

(via Classical plural form بِرَادَرَان (birādarān)):

References

  • Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “պիրազ̇էր”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 448a
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