बिरादर
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بِرَادَر (birādar). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi برادر (bradr /birādar/). Doublet of भाई (bhāī), भ्राता (bhrātā), and भ्रातृ (bhrātŕ).
Cognates
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /bɪ.ɾɑː.d̪əɾ/, [bɪ.ɾäː.d̪ɐɾ]
- Hyphenation: बि‧रा‧दर
- Rhymes: -əɾ
Noun
बिरादर • (birādar) m (Urdu spelling بِرَادَر)
- (rare) brother
Declension
| 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 [Varanasi]: 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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “birādar”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 137.