# برادر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* براذر (bürazer, birazer)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برادر (barâdar, berâdar).

### Noun

برادر • (birader) (plural برادرلر)
* brother
    Synonym: قارداش (kardaş)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: birader, biladar, bilader, bilâzer, bilezer (dialectal)
* → Albanian: birazer, byrazer, bilazer, birazel, burazer
* →⇒ Armenian: Պիլեզերյան (Pilezeryan), Պիլզերյան (Pilzeryan)
* →⇒ Bulgarian: Билезер (Bilezer), Билезеров (Bilezerov), Билядеров (Biljaderov)
* → Serbo-Croatian: бура́зер / burázer

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برادر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 744

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* براذر (barâðar) (obsolete)
* وردار (vardâr) (dialectal, Kashan)
* برار (birār) (dialectal, Hazaragi)
* بیادر (biyādar) (dialectal, Dari)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (brād, brādar), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (brātā), from Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognate with English brother.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bi.ɾɑː.ˈðaɾ], [ba.ɾɑː.ˈðaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɪ.ɾɑː.d̪ǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɪ.ɾɑː.d̪ǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bi.jɑː.d̪ǽɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bi.ɾɔ́ːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bæ.ɹɒː.d̪ǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bä.ɾɔ.d̪ǽɾ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)
* Rhymes: -ar

### Noun

برادر • (barādar / barâdar or birādar / berâdar) (plural برادران or برادرها)
* brother
    Synonyms: داداش (dādāš / dâdâš), دادر (dādar / dâdar), اخوی (axawī / axavi), کاکا (kākā / kâkâ) (dialectal)
    برادرم می‌خواد با زنی ازدواج کنه.barâdaram mi-xâd bâ zan-i ezdevâj kone.My brother wants to get married to some woman. (Implied is that the brother has chosen a specific woman, but the speaker is not acquainted with her.)
* (Iran, military) comrade
* (Iran, colloquial) dude (term of address for man)
    Synonyms: داداش (dādāš / dâdâš), اخوی (axawī / axavi)

#### Inflection

$^△$ Colloquial.
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#### Derived terms

* برادر ناتنی (barādar-nātanī / barâdar-nâtani)
* برادرانه (barādarāna / barâdarâne)
* برادرخوانده (barādar-xwānda / barâdar-xânde)
* برادرزاده (barādar-zāda / barâdar-zâde)
* برادرزن (barādar-zan / barâdar-zan)
* برادرشوهر (barādar-šōhar / barâdar-šuhar)
* برادروار (barādarwār / barâdarvâr)
* برادرکشی (barādar-kušī / barâdar-koši)
* برادری (barādarī / barâdari)
* دختربرادر (duxtar-barādar / doxtar-barâdar)
* زن‌برادر (zan-barādar / zan-barâdar)
* پسربرادر (pisar-barādar / pesar-barâdar)

#### Descendants

* → Bashkir: борадәр (boradər)
* → Bengali: বেরাদর (berador)
* → Gujarati: બિરાદર (birādar)
* → Hindustani: birādar
    Hindi: बिरादर
    Urdu: بِرادَر
* → Ottoman Turkish: برادر (birader), براذر (bürazer, birazer)
** Turkish: birader, biladar, bilader, bilâzer, bilezer (dialectal)
** → Albanian: birazer, byrazer, bilazer, birazel, burazer
** →⇒ Armenian: Պիլեզերյան (Pilezeryan), Պիլզերյան (Pilzeryan)
** →⇒ Bulgarian: Билезер (Bilezer), Билезеров (Bilezerov), Билядеров (Biljaderov)
** → Serbo-Croatian: бура́зер / burázer
* → Punjabi: barādar
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਰਾਦਰ
    Shahmukhi script: بَرادَر
* → Uzbek: birodar
(via Classical plural form بِرَادَرَان (birādarān)):
* → Hindustani: birādarān
    Hindi: बिरादरान
    Urdu: بِرادَران

#### See also

* When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.
* In many dialects, cases of word final ـا (-ā) may be shortened to ـه (-a).
* In many dialects, all family names ending in ـه (-a) may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added, e.g. عمه (amma) -> عمی (ammay) (unrelated to ezafe).

### References

* Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “պիրազ̇էր”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 448a