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Masculine given name
Peter is a common masculine
given name . It is derived directly from
Greek Πέτρος , Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek
petra , the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of
Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name
Jesus gave to apostle
Simon Bar-Jona .
[1] An
Old English variant is
Piers .
In other languages
The following names can be interpreted as Peter in
English .
Afrikaans : Pieter, Petrus
Albanian : Pjetër, Prel
Amharic : ጴጥሮስ ("Ṗeṭros")
Arabic : بطرس (
Boutros ), بيار ("
Pierre ," mainly in Lebanon), بيتر ("Peter," exact transcription)
Aragonese : Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier
Armenian : Պետրոս (Bedros in Western dialect, Petros in Eastern dialect)
Asturian : Pedru
Azerbaijani : Pyotr
Basque : Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism)
Belarusian : Пётр (Piotr ), Пятро (Piatro ), Пятрусь (Piatruś )
Bengali : পাথর (Pathor )
Breton : Pêr
Bulgarian : Петър (Petər ), Пере, Перо (Pere, Pero ), Петьо, Петю (Petyo, Petyu ), Пеньо, Пеню, Пенко (Penyo, Penyu, Penko ), Пельо, Пелю, Пелко (Pelyo, Pelyu, Pelko ), Пешо (Pesho ); Камен (Kamen ) ("kamen, kamək" in Bulgarian means: stone)
Catalan : Pere
Cebuano : Pedro
Standard Chinese :
Coptic : ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ (Ṗeṭros )
Cornish : Peder
Croatian : Petar, Pero, Periša, Pera, Pejo
Czech : Petr, Péťa (diminutive)
Danish : Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle
Dutch : Pieter, Peter, Piet, Pier (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus." )
Emiliano-Romagnolo : Pédor
Esperanto : Petro
Estonian :
Peeter , Peep, Peetrus, Pavo, Peedo
Faroese : Pætur, Petur, Per
Filipino : Pedro, Pedring (diminutive)
Frisian : Piter, Pier
Finnish : Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
French :
Pierre (Note: the word for stone in French is also "pierre" )
Galician : Pedro
Georgian : პეტრე (Petre )
German : Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus." )
Greek : Πέτρος (Petros )
Guarani Peru
Gujarati : પીટર (Pīṭar )
Gungbe : Pita
Haitian Creole : Pyè. The name is spelled "Pierre" and pronounced "pyè"; also meaning "stone."
Hausa : Bitrus
Hindi : Pathrus, पीटर (Pīṭar )
Hebrew : פטרוס (Petros ), פטר (literally Peter)
Hungarian : Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive)
Icelandic : Pétur, Pési (diminutive)
Indonesian : Petrus, Peter
Irish : Piaras, Peadar
Italian :
Pietro , Pier, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra" )
Japanese :
Protestant : ピーター (Pītā )
Catholic : ペトロ (Petoro ), ペテロ (Petero ),
Biblical contexts: ペトロス (Petorosu )
Khmer : Pathra
Konkani : Pedru
Korean : 베드로 (Bedro ; or, less commonly, 페트루스; Petrus ), 피터 (Pitə )
Lao : ເປໂຕ (Peot )
Latin : Petrus
Latvian :
Pēteris
Lingala : Petelo
Lithuanian : Petras
Lombard : Peder
Low German : Petrus
Luganda : Petero
Luxembourgish : Pit, Pier
Macedonian : Петар (Petar ), Питер (Piter ), Петре (Petre ), Перо (Pero ), Пере (Pere ), Перица (Perica )
Malagasy : Petera
Malayalam : പത്രോസ് (Patrōs ), പീരി("Peeri," from Pierre)
Maltese : Pietru
Manx : Peddyr
Māori : Petera, Pita
Marathi : पेत्र (petrə), पेद्रो (pedro)
Mongolian : Петр (Pyetr )
Montenegrin : Petar (Петар ), Pero (Перо )
Nepali : पत्रुस (Patrus )
Norman : Pierre
Northern Sami : Pekka, Piera, Biera, Bierril, Bierža, Biehtár
Norwegian : Peter,
Petter ,
Per ,
Pelle , Peder
Nahuatl : Pedro
Occitan : Pèire, Pèir, Pèr
Persian : Pedros, Pedrush
Polish : Piotr.
Diminutives /
hypocoristics include Piotrek, Piotruś, and Piotrunio. Piotr has several
name days in Poland .
Portuguese : Pedro, Pêro (old Portuguese) (Note: the word for stone in Portuguese is "pedra" )
Punjabi : ਪਤਰਸਨੂੰ (Patarasanū )
Quechua : Pidru, Rumi
[2]
Romanian : Petru, Petre, Petrică (diminutive), Petrișor (diminutive)
Russian : Пётр (Pyotr ), Петя (Petya ) (diminutive), Петруха (Petrukha ) (colloquial)
Samoan : Petelo
Sardinian : Pedru, Perdu, Pretu
Scottish Gaelic : Peadair
Serbian : Петар (Petar ), Перо (Pero ), Пера (Pera ), Перица (Perica ), Периша (Periša )
Croatian : Petar , Pero , Pera , Perica , Periša
Sicilian : Pietru
Silesian : Pyjter, Piter
Sinhala : Peduru
Slovak : Peter, Peťo
Slovene : Peter
Spanish : Pedro
Swahili : Petero
Swedish : Peter,
Petter , Peder, Per, Pehr, Pär, Pelle, Pälle (Note: The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus.")
Syriac : ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭrus)
Tagalog : Pedro
Tamil : Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts)
Telugu : పేతురు Peturu
Thai : ปีเตอร์ (
RTGS : Pitoe ), เปโตร (Petro, in biblical contexts )
Tongan : Pita
Tswana : Petere, Pitoro
Turkish : Kaya (rock), Kayhan (khan of rocks)
Ukrainian : Петро (Petro ), Пітер (Piter ), Петрик (Petryk ) (diminutive), Петрусь (Petrus' ) (diminutive)
Urdu : (Rock, پتھر) or (lit. Peter, پیٹر)
Uzbek : Pyotr (as in Russian)
Venetian : Piero
Vietnamese : Phê-rô
Võro : Piitre
Welsh : Pedr
West Frisian : Petrus
Yoruba : Peteru
Zulu : Petru
People named Peter (or commonly known as Peter)
See also
References