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
Persianbabr (
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
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.
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