اسکندر

Malay

اسکندر

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (swkndl /⁠Skandar ~ Sokandar⁠/),^[1]^[2] from Arabic إِسْكَنْدَر (ʔiskandar), from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.kʰän̪.d̪áɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.kʰän̪.d̪áɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.kʰän̪.d̪áɾ]

اِسْکَنْدَر • (iskandar / eskandar) (Tajik spelling Искандар)

a male given name, Eskandar or Iskandar, from Arabic [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Alexander
― iskandar-i maqdūnī / eskandar-e maġduni ― Alexander the Great (literally, “Alexander the Macedonian”)

→ Bashkir: Искәндәр (İskəndər)
→ Bengali: ইস্কান্দর (iskandor), সিকান্দর (śikandor)
→ Gujarati: સિકંદર (sikandar)
→ Kannauji: सिकंदर
→ Kazakh: Ескендір (Eskendır)
- → Russian: Ескенди́р m anim (Jeskendír)
→ Kyrgyz: Искендер (İskender)
→ Malay: Iskandar
→ Middle Hindi: سکندر (skndr /⁠sikandar⁠/) (via Classical Persian (sikandar)).
- Hindustani: sikandar
  Hindi: सिकंदर
  
  Urdu: سِکَنْدَر
→ Punjabi: (via Classical Persian (sikandar))
Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਕੰਦਰ (sikandar)

Shahmukhi script: سِکَن٘دَر (sikaṉdar)
→ Ottoman Turkish: اسكندر (İskender) (see there for further descendants)
- Turkish: İskender
- → Albanian: Skënder
- → Azerbaijani: İsgəndər
- → Karakalpak: İskender
- → Tatar: İskändär
- → Turkmen: Isgender
- → Uyghur: ئىسكەندەر (iskender)
- → Zazaki: İskendero
→ Pashto: سکندر (sikandar) (via Classical Persian (sikandar))
→ Uzbek: Iskandar

^ Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “Sokandar”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 177,
^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “*Skandar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 75