سکندر

Borrowed from Arabic إسْكَنْدَر (ʔiskandar).

سِکَنْدَر • (sekandar)

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سِکَنْدَر • (sekandar)

1. Alternative form of اسکندر (eskandar): a male given name, Sekandar or Sikandar

• اسکندر (iskandar)

From Classical Persian سکندر (sikandar, “Alexander The Great”), from Middle Persian swkndl (sikandar), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɪ.kən.d̪əɾ/

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• Rhymes: -əɾ

سکندر • (sikandar) m (Hindi spelling सिकंदर)

1. king, ruler, sovereign

   Synonym: شاہ (šāh)

   تلوار اور ایمان سے فتح حاصل کر کے وہ ہر گاؤں اور شہر، ہر پہاڑ اور ہر میدان کا سکندر بن گیا۔

   talvār aur īmān se fatah hasil kar ke vo har gāoñ aur šehár, har pahāṛ aur har maydān kā sikandar ban geyā

   with sword and faith, yielding victory, he became the sovereign of every village and city, every mountain and every plain.

سکندر • (sikandar) m (Hindi spelling सिकंदर)

1. Alexander the Great; king of Macedon whose undefeated campaign spanned across much of Western Asia, Egypt and into the Indian subcontinent, establishing one of the largest empires in classical antiquity.
2. a male given name, Sikandar, from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander

• سِکَنْدَری (sikandarī, “glory and splendor like Alexander's, pretaining to Alexander the Great”)
• سِکَندرِ اَعظَم (sikandar-e-ā'zam, “Alexander the Great”)
• سِکَنْدَر بَخْت (sikandar-baxt, “fortunate, very lucky”)
• سَدِ سِکَنْدَر (sad-e-sikandar, “wall of Alexander, a wall created by Alexander the Great to defend earth from Gog and Magog”)
• سِکَنْدَر نِژاد (sikandar-nižād, “(poetically, metaphorically) of the race of Alexander the Great, Alexander-like, brave”)