بهادر

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭ᠋ᠠᠲᠤᠷ (baɣatur), attested after the Mongol conquest in the 1200s.

بهادر • (bahâdor) (plural بهادران)

1. paladin, champion, hero

   Synonyms: قهرمان (qahremân), دلاور (delâvar), یل (yal), گرد (gord), پهلوان (pahlavân), گوانجی (gavânji)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:

     بهادران و دلیرند خیل مژگانت
     که وقت معرکه هستند هر یکی صفدر

     bahādurān u dalēr-and xayl-i mužagānat
     ki waqt-i ma'rakā hastand har yakē safdar

     The army of your eyelashes are valiant paladins,
     Each of whom break the enemy's ranks at the time of war.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. brave, valiant, courageous

   Synonyms: شجاع (šojâ'), دلیر (dalir), دلاور (delâvar)

   • 1510s, Faẓlullāh Rōzbihān Khunjī, سلوک الملوک:

     با یکدیگر مصافی دادند بر لب کول
     هر دو جوان پرزور هر دو یل بهادر

     bā yakdīgar masāffē dādand bar lab-i kūl
     har du jawān-i pur-zōr har du yal-i bahādur

     They fought each other in battle on the banks of the Kūl,
     Both of them strong young men, both valiant heroes.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

بهادر • (bahâdor)

1. a male given name, Bahador or Bahadur

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بهادر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بهادر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press