Babar Explained

Babar (Urdu: {{Nastaliq| بابر ), also variously spelled as Baber, Babur, and Babor is a male given name of Pashto, and Persian origin, and a popular male given name in Pakistan. It is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr (Persian: ببر), meaning "tiger". 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.^[1] Thackston argues for an alternate derivation from the PIE word "beaver", pointing to similarities between the pronunciation Bābor and the Russian bobr (Russian: бобр, "beaver").^[2]

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.

Geographical

• Babar Islands, a group of islands in the Southwest Maluku Regency in Maluku, Imndonesia.

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.
• 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, 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

• Babar the Elephant, fictional character from a French children's book series

Other uses

• BaBar, a nuclear physics experiment

References

Sources

• cs2 . Baber . 3 . . 179.
• cs2 . Baber . 3 . . 92.

Notes and References

1. Thumb, Albert, Handbuch des Sanskrit, mit Texten und Glossar, German original, ed. C. Winter, 1953, Snippet, p. 318
2. Book: The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor . Modern Library . 0-375-76137-3 . 2002 . Babur, Emperor of Hindustan . translated, edited and annotated by W. M. Thackston .