Babar (Urdu: بابر ), also variously spelled as Baber,[1] Babur,[2] and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan.[3] It is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr (Persian: ببر), meaning "tiger".[1] There is a similar name in connotation to the Arabic male given form and generic name of the animal by the name "Nimr" (Arabic: نَمِر namir) which means "yellow-black stripped cat", i.e. "tiger".
The word repeatedly appears in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and was borrowed into the Turkic languages of Central Asia.[2][4] Thackston argues for an alternate derivation from the PIE word "beaver", pointing to similarities between the pronunciation Bābor and the Russian bobr (бобр, "beaver").[5]
The most famous bearer of this name was Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, known popularly as Babur, a prince of the Timurid dynasty who founded the Mughal Empire, and the name is popular in Bahrain, Afghanistan, as well as Muslim communities in South and Central Asia.
People[edit]
- Babur (1483–1530), also spelled Baber or Babar, Turkic ruler of present-day India and founder of the Mughal Empire which encompassed territories outside of India.
- Babar Ahmed (director), Pakistani-born American film director
- Babar Ali (disambiguation)
- Babar Ali (born 1975), Pakistani actor
- Babar Ali (cricketer) (born 1986), Pakistani cricketer
- Babar Ali (teacher), Indian educator
- Babar Ali Khan (fl. 1793–1810), Nawab of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa
- Babar Ali Khan Mohmand (born 1983), Pakistani politician
- Babar Awan (born 1958), Pakistani writer and politician
- Babar Azam (born 1994), Pakistani cricketer
- Babar Bhatti (born 1949), British actor
- Babar Hayat (born 1992), Pakistani-born Hong Kong cricketer
- Babar Khan, Pakistani actor and model
- Babar Khan (cricketer) (born 1993), Pakistani cricketer
- Babar Luck (born 1970), Pakistani-born British musician
- Babar Khan Ghauri, Pakistani politician
- Babar Nawaz Khan, Pakistani politician
- Babar Naeem (born 1983), Pakistani cricketer
- Babar Rehman (born 1984), Pakistani cricketer
- Diana Babar, British solicitor
- Fahad Babar (born 1992), Pakistani-born American cricketer
- Farhatullah Babar, Pakistani politician
- Ilyas Babar (1926–2002), Indian athletic coach
- Lutfozzaman Babar, Bangladeshi politician
- Naseerullah Babar (1928–2011), Pakistani general and cabinet minister
- Wali Khan Babar (1982–2011), Pakistani journalist
- Zulfiqar Babar (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer (Bowler)
Fiction[edit]
- Babar the Elephant, fictional character from a French children's book series
References[edit]
- ^ a b EB (1878).
- ^ a b EB (1911).
- ^ Eraly 2007, pp. 18–20.
- ^ Thumb, Albert, Handbuch des Sanskrit, mit Texten und Glossar, German original, ed. C. Winter, 1953, Snippet, p. 318
- ^ Babur, Emperor of Hindustan (2002). The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. translated, edited and annotated by W. M. Thackston. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-76137-3.
Sources[edit]
- Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 179
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 92
- Eraly, Abraham (2007), Emperors of the Peacock Throne: The Saga of the Great Moghuls, Penguin Books Limited, ISBN 978-93-5118-093-7