Old Persian
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Compare Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother”).
Noun
𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (b-r-a-t-a /brātā/) m
- brother
Descendants
- Middle Persian:
- Manichaean script: 𐫁𐫡𐫀𐫅 (brʾd /brād/), 𐫁𐫡𐫀𐫅𐫡 (brʾdr /brādar/)
- Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (AH), [Book Pahlavi needed] (blʾt' /brād/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (blʾtl' /brādar/)
- Classical Persian: برادر (barādar)
- Dari: برادر (birādar, barādar), بیادر (biyādar)
- Hazaragi: برار (birṓr)
- Iranian Persian: برادر (barâdar)
- Tajik: бародар (barodar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: برادر (birader), براذر (bürazer, birazer)
- Turkish: birader, biladar, bilader, bilâzer, bilezer (dialectal)
- → Albanian: birazer, byrazer, bilazer, birazel, burazer
- →⇒ Armenian: Պիլեզերյան (Pilezeryan), Պիլզերյան (Pilzeryan)
- →⇒ Bulgarian: Билезер (Bilezer), Билезеров (Bilezerov), Билядеров (Biljaderov)
- → Serbo-Croatian: бура́зер / burázer