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Kedar
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Etymology 1
en sa केदार.
Proper noun
en male Sanskrit used in India.
Etymology 2
From en he קֵדָר.
Proper noun
A son of Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible.
en 1851 Robert Benjamin Lewis Light and Truth: Collected from the Bible and Ancient and Modern History 2nd Boston Moses M. Taylor 336 81539144 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Light_and_truth_-_collected_from_the_Bible_and_ancient_and_modern_history_-_containing_the_universal_history_of_the_colored_and_the_Indian_race_%28IA_08555147.4848.emory.edu%29.pdf Kedar was the second son of Ishmael: and Isaiah frequently personifies the Arabians under the name of Kedar.
en 1936 Charles Fillmore Mysteries of Genesis Kansas City, Missouri Unity School of Christianity 206 38018419 689852 https://archive.org/details/mysteriesofgenes0000fill The second son of Ishmael was Kedar.
en 2026 Richard North Cædmon and Muḥammad Revisited Early Medieval England and its Neighbours 52 22 10.1017/ean.2025.10007 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/ACA8CEADCFC07AC89D42EBE188E16B7B/S3033367925100073a.pdf/caedmon_and_muhammad_revisited.pdf Bede refers in this way to the descendants of Kedar, second son of Ishmael.