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Peter
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peter Péter péter
English
Etymology
From en enm Peter, from en ang Petrus, from en la Petrus, from en grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock. en Pedro Piers Boutros.
Pronunciation
en /ˈpiːtə/ RP,Australian,NZ
en /ˈpitɚ/ [ˈpʰitɚ] [ˈpʰiɾɚ] GA,CA
en en-us-Peter.ogg Southern California
en iːtə(ɹ) 2
en PETA pita peter Received Pronunciation ptr
Noun
en noun
en World War II era joint US/RAF radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
en Papa
Proper noun
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Epistle of Peter
en Q2793400 en male Ancient Greek.
en 1911 w:J. M. Barrie w:Peter Pan Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1993 I She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
en 1933 w:Eleanor Farjeon Over the Garden Wall Faber and Faber 90 Boys' Names What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
en Devan Cole, Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann Two congressmen traveled to Afghanistan amid frantic evacuation efforts w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/seth-moulton-peter-meijer-afghanistan-trip/index.html 2021-08-24 Reps. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, said in a joint statement Tuesday that they had traveled to Kabul “to conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans and our allies” and that the trip had been conducted in secret “to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220129115535/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/seth-moulton-peter-meijer-afghanistan-trip/index.html
en Q33923 The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter.
en biblical The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
en Pet. abbreviation
en patronymics.
en CDP co/Cache County s/Utah c/USA, named after Peter Maughan.
en Petersboro
Derived terms
en Ayot St Peter blue peter Blue Peter Chalfont St Peter Charlton St Peter Peter boat Peter Funk Peter Griffin Peter Island Peter Pan Peter Parker principle Peter pence,Peter's pence Peter principle Peter the Great Peter's fish Peter's penny Peterborough Peterchurch Peterloo Peters Marland Petersburg Petrine rob Peter to pay Paul Saint Peter Saint Peter Port St Peter's St Peters St. Peter Thorpe St Peter Willie Peter
Related terms
given name variants: Peers, Percy, Pete, Petey, Pierce, Piers
feminine forms: Peta, Petra
en surnames McFedries McFetridge Parkerson Parkin Parkins Parkinson Parkyn Parratt Parrell Parren Parrett Parritt Parrot Parrott Pearce Pears Pearse Pearson Peat Peate Peattie Peaty Peddie Peers Peet Peirce Peirse Pell Pells Pelly Perce Perkin Perkins Perot Perowne Perratt Perret Perrett Perrin Perring Perrins Perris Perriss Perron Perrott Perse Persse Peterkin Peters Peterson Pether Pethers Petre Petrie Pierce Piers Pierse Pierson Pither Pithers Porrett Porritt Purkins
Translations
male given name
Afrikaans: af Pieter
Albanian: sq Pjétër, sq Pjétro, sq Pétër, sq Pétro
Amharic: am ጴጥሮስ
Arabic: ar بُطْرُس m cognate, ar بِيتَر m transliteration
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: syc ܦܛܪܘܣ Peṭrus
Armenian: hy Պետրոս
Asturian: ast Pedru m
Basque: eu Peio, eu Peru, eu Petri
Belarusian: be Пётр m, be Пятро́ m
Breton: br Pêr m
Bulgarian: bg Пѐтър m
Catalan: ca Pere
Cebuano: ceb Pedro
Chinese:
Eastern Min: cdo 彼得 Bī-dáik
Mandarin: cmn 彼得 Bǐdé transliteration
Chuvash: cv Петӗр
Cornish: kw Peder
Corsican: co Petru
Czech: cs Petr m
Old Czech: zlw-ocs Petr m
Danish: da Peter, da Peder, da Per
Dutch: nl Pieter
Emilian: egl Pîr
Esperanto: eo Petro
Estonian: et Peeter
Faroese: fo Petur, fo Pætur m, fo Per m
Finnish: fi Pietari, fi Petteri, fi Petri
Franco-Provençal: frp Pierro
French: fr Pierre m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Piter
Friulian: fur Pieri m
Galician: gl Pedro m
Georgian: ka პეტრე
German: de Peter m, de Per m
Alemannic German: gsw Peder
Bavarian: bar Bäda, bar Beda
Greek: el Πέτρος m, el Παναγιώτης, el Πήτερ transliteration from English, el Πίτερ transliteration from English
Ancient Greek: grc Πέτρος m
Greenlandic: kl Piita, kl Piitaq
Hawaiian: haw Pekelo
Hebrew: he פֶּטֶר Péter
Hindi: hi पीटर
Hungarian: hu Péter
Icelandic: is Pétur m
Ido: io Petrus m
Indonesian: id Petrus
Irish: ga Peadar
Italian: it Pietro m, it Piero
Japanese: ja ピーター Pītā transliteration
Kashubian: csb Pioter m
Konkani: kok पेद्रु
Korean: ko 피터
Latin: la Petrus
Latvian: lv Pēteris
Limburgish: li Petrus
Lithuanian: lt Pẽtras
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Päiter m
Luxembourgish: lb Péiter
Macedonian: mk Петар m, mk Петре m
Maltese: mt Pietru
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: mns-nor Пе̄тра
Manx: gv Peddyr m
Māori: mi Pita
Marathi: mr पीटर m
Mongolian: mn Петр m
Norman: nrf Pièrre m, nrf Piteur m
Norwegian: no Peder, no Peter, no Petter
Occitan: oc Pèire m, oc Pèr m, oc Pèir m
Cyrillic: cu Пєтръ m
Glagolitic: cu Ⱂⰵⱅⱃⱏ m
Old Norse: non Pétr m
Persian: fa پیتر piter
Polish: pl Piotr m
Old Polish: zlw-opl Piotr m
Portuguese: pt Pedro
Romanian: ro Petru, ro Petre
Cyrillic: ro Петру m, ro Петре m
Romansh: rm Peider m
Russian: ru Пётр m cognate, ru Пи́тер m transliteration
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Piera
Sardinian: sc Pedru m, sc Perdu m, sc Predu m
Scots: sco Peter
Scottish Gaelic: gd Peadar m , gd Pàdraig m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Пѐтар m
Latin: sh Pètar m
Sicilian: scn Petru m
Silesian: szl Pyjter m
Sinhalese: si පේතෘස් m
Slovak: sk Peter
Slovene: sl Péter m
Slovincian: zlw-slv Pjôter m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Pětš m
Upper Sorbian: hsb Pětr m
Spanish: es Pedro
Swahili: sw Petro c5
Swedish: sv Per, sv Peter, sv Petter
Tagalog: tl Pedro
Tamil: ta பீட்டர்
Thai: th ปีเตอร์ bpii-dtə̂ə
Tigrinya: ti ጴጥሮስ
Turkish: tr Petrus, tr Petros
Ukrainian: uk Петро́ m cognate, uk Пі́тер m transliteration
Urdu: ur پطرس m Piṭrus
Venetan: vec Piero m
Vietnamese: vi Phêrô
Walloon: wa Pire m
Waray-Waray: war Pedro
Welsh: cy Pedr
Wolof: wo Piyeer
Yakut: sah Бүөтүр
Yiddish: yi פּעטרוס
Zealandic: zea Petrus
the Apostle
Afrikaans: af Petrus
Aghwan: xag 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚
Albanian: sq Pjétri, sq Pétro,
Amharic: am ጴጥሮስ
Arabic: ar بُطْرُس
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: syc ܦܛܪܘܣ Peṭraus
Armenian: hy Պետրոս
Basque: eu Peio, eu Peru, eu Petri
Belarusian: be Пётр m
Breton: br Pêr m
Bulgarian: bg Пе́тър m
Cebuano: ceb Pedro
Cherokee: chr ᏈᏓ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 彼得 bei2 dak1, yue 伯多祿 baak3 do1 luk6 Catholic, yue 伯鐸 baak3 dok6 Catholic, yue 裴特若 pui4 dak6 joek6 Orthodox
Eastern Min: cdo 彼得 Bī-dáik, cdo 伯多祿 Báe̤k-dŏ̤-lṳ̆k Catholic, cdo 伯鐸 Báe̤k-dŏk Catholic
Hakka: hak 彼得 Pí-tet
Hokkien: nan-hbl 彼得 Pí-tek, nan-hbl 伯多祿 Pek-to-lo̍k Catholic
Mandarin: cmn 彼得 Bǐdé, cmn 伯多祿 Bóduōlù Catholic, cmn 伯鐸 Bóduó Catholic, cmn 裴特若 Péitèruò Orthodox
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb Monye
Corsican: co Petru
Czech: cs Petr m
Danish: da Peter
Dutch: nl Petrus
Emilian: egl Pîr
Estonian: et Peetrus
Faroese: fo Pætur m
Finnish: fi Pietari
French: fr Pierre m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Petrus
Friulian: fur Pieri m
Georgian: ka პეტრე
German: de Petrus
Greek: el Πέτρος m
Ancient Greek: grc Πέτρος m
Greenlandic: kl Piita, kl Piitaq
Gujarati: gu પિતર m
Hawaiian: haw Petero
Hebrew: he פטרוס
Hindi: hi पतरस m
Hungarian: hu Péter
Icelandic: is Pétur m
Ido: io Petrus m
Indonesian: id Petrus
Irish: ga Peadar m
Old Irish: sga Petur m
Italian: it Pietro
Japanese: in Biblical contexts ja ペトロ Petoro, ja ペテロ Petero, ja ペトロス Petorosu
Kazakh: kk Петір
Konkani: kok पेद्रु
Korean: ko ^베드로
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb پێترۆس, ckb بوتڕوس
Latin: la Petrus
Latvian: lv Pēteris m
Limburgish: li Petrus
Lithuanian: lt Pẽtras m
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Päiter m
Macedonian: mk Петар
Malay: ms Petrus
Maltese: mt Pietru m
Manchu: mnc ᡦᡳᠶᡝᡨᡝᡵ
Manx: gv Peddyr m
Māori: mi Pita
Mongolian: mn Петр m, mn Хад m rare
Norman: nrf Pièrre m
Norwegian: no Peter
Old Church Slavonic: cu Петръ m
Old English: ang Petrus m
Old Norse: non Pétr m
Persian: fa پطرس petros
Polish: pl Piotr m
Portuguese: pt Pedro m
Romanian: ro Petru m
Russian: ru Пётр
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Biehtár
Scots: sco Peter
Scottish Gaelic: gd Peadar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Пѐтар m
Latin: sh Pètar m
Sicilian: scn Santu Petru
Sindhi: sd پطرس
Sinhalese: si ශුද්ධවූ පේදුරු තුමා
Slovak: sk Peter m
Slovene: sl Peter m
Slovincian: zlw-slv Pjétrus m
Somali: so Butros
Spanish: es Pedro
Swahili: sw Petro
Swedish: sv Petrus
Tagalog: tl Pedro
Tamil: ta இராயப்பர்
Thai: th เปโตร bpee-dtroo
Tibetan: bo པེ་ཏྲོ
Tigrinya: ti ጴጥሮስ
Turkish: tr Petrus
Ukrainian: uk Петро́
Urdu: ur پطرس m
Vietnamese: vi Phêrô Roman Catholic, vi Phierơ Protestant
Waray-Waray: war Pedro
Welsh: cy Pedr m
Wolof: wo Piyeer
Zealandic: zea Petrus
one of the epistles of Peter
Afrikaans: af Petrus
Amharic: am የጴጥሮስ መልእክት
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: syc ܦܛܪܘܣ Peṭraus
Armenian: hy Պետրոս
Awadhi: awa पतरस
Basque: eu Peio, eu Peru, eu Petri
Breton: br Pêr m
Bulgarian: bg Петър
Burmese: my ရှင်ပေတရုဩဝါဒစာပဌမစောင်, my ရှင်ပေတရုဩဝါဒစာဒုတိယစောင်
Cebuano: ceb Pedro
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 彼得 bei2 dak1
Eastern Min: cdo 彼得 Bī-dáik
Mandarin: cmn 彼得 Bǐdé
Corsican: co Petru
Czech: cs Petrův m
Danish: da Petersbrev,
Dutch: nl Peter m
Estonian: et Peetruse, et Pt
Faroese: fo Pætur
Finnish: fi Pietarin kirje
French: fr Pierre f, fr P f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Piter
German: de (Der 1./2. Brief des) Petrus, de Petr, de Peter
Bavarian: bar Beda
Greek: el Πέτρος m
Ancient Greek: grc Πέτρος m
Greenlandic: kl Piita, kl Piitaq
Hawaiian: haw Petero
Hindi: hi पतरस m
Hungarian: hu Péter
Icelandic: is Pétur m
Ido: io Petrus m
Indonesian: id Petrus
Irish: ga Peadar m
Italian: it Pietro m
Japanese: ja ペテロの手紙 Petero no Tegami
Kazakh: kk Петірдің хаты
Khmer: km ពេត្រុសទី
Konkani: kok पेद्रुचें पत्र
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb پەترۆس
Latin: la Petrus m
Latvian: lv Pēteris m
Limburgish: li Petrus
Lithuanian: lt Pẽtras m, lt Pẽtro laiškaĩ f-p
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Päiter m
Macedonian: mk Петрово n
Malay: ms Petrus
Malayalam: ml പത്രൊസ്
Maltese: mt Pietru m
Manx: gv Peddyr
Māori: mi Pita
Mongolian: mn Петр, mn Пт
Norwegian: no Peter, no Peters, no Pet
Odia: or ପିତରଙ୍କ
Polish: pl List świętego Piotra Apostoła m; pl List św. Piotra m; pl List Piotra m; pl P
Portuguese: pt Pedro m
Punjabi: pa ਪਤਰਸ
Romanian: ro Petru m
Scots: sco Peter
Scottish Gaelic: gd Peadar
Serbo-Croatian: sh Pt m
Slovak: sk Petrov m
Slovene: sl Peter m
Somali: so Butros
Spanish: es Pedro m
Swahili: sw Petro
Swedish: sv Petrusbrev Petrusbreven n-p
Tagalog: tl Pedro
Tamil: ta பேதுரு
Thai: th เปโตร
Turkish: tr Petrus'un
Uzbek: uz Butrus
Vietnamese: vi Phêrô Roman Catholic, vi Phierơ Protestant
Waray-Waray: war Pedro
Welsh: cy Pedr m
Zealandic: zea Petrus
surname
Bulgarian: bg Питър English transliteration
Finnish: fi Pietarinen, fi Pietarila
Amharic: am ጴጥሮስ
Hindi: hi पथ्रुस
See also
en Petrock
en Petronella
Anagrams
en eeprt Peret Petre Prete peert petre repet.
en Biblical characters
Cebuano
Etymology
From ceb en Peter, from ceb enm Petre, from ceb la Petrus, from ceb grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock, related to grc πέτρα.
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb male English < Ancient Greek
Danish
Etymology
From da non Pétr, from da la Petrus, from da grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock, related to grc πέτρα. Later reinforced by the German de Peter.
Pronunciation
da /ˈpeːˀtər/ [ˈpʰeːˀd̥ɐ] stressed
da /petər/ [pʰed̥ɐ] unstressed
Proper noun
da proper noun
da male
en Peter biblical figure.
Og jeg siger dig, at du er Peter, og på den klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke, --- Bibelen, Matthæus 16:18 (1992 transl.)
Related terms
variants da Peder, da Per
feminine forms da Pernille, da Petra, da Petrea, da Petrine
surnames da Pedersen, da Petersen
References
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 150 294 males with the given name Peter have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
da Biblical characters
Dutch
Etymology
From nl dum Peter, from nl la Petrus, from nl grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος rock, stone, as a name a loan translation of nl arc כֵּיפָא stone, rock; Peter, Cephas.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈpeː.tər/
nl Nl-Peter.ogg
nl Pe ter
nl eːtər
Proper noun
m
nl male Peter
Related terms
nl Petrus
nl Piet, nl Pieter
Anagrams
nl repte
German
Etymology
de la Petrus, from de grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock, related to grc πέτρα.
Pronunciation
de /ˈpeːtɐ/
de De-Peter.ogg
de De-Peter2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de De-Peter3.oga
de BY-Peter.ogg Bavaria
Proper noun
m,s:-,(s)
de male Petra
de Alle Kinder stehen an der Klippe, außer Peter, der geht noch einen Meter. All the children are standing at the cliff, except Peter, who walks another meter.
Related terms
biblical form: de Petrus
Proper noun
m:f,s,(s)
A common surname.
Usage notes
The unchanged plural is preferred in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
In northern and central Germany, both forms are common for the given name, but the surname usually takes de -s in the plural.
Alternative forms
de Peters singular
Italian
it:
Etymology 1
it :bor en:Peter
it en Peter.
Pronunciation
Pìter<r:DiPI<<name:dipi>>>
Proper noun
mfbysense
it en male given name
it uncommon it en surname
Etymology 2
it :bor de:Peter
it de Peter.
Pronunciation
Pèter<r:<<name:dipi>>>
Proper noun
mfbysense
it de male given name,surname
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
enm petir Petir petur petre peiter
Etymology
From enm ang Petrus, from enm la Petrus, from enm grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock.
Pronunciation
enm /ˈpeːtər/
Proper noun
Petres
en Peter
36-37 Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe. "Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows."
Related terms
enm Petres peny
Descendants
en Peter
sco Peter
yol Beedher 1
References
Pẹ̄ter n MED33197
enm Biblical characters
Norwegian
Etymology
From no non Pétr, from no la Petrus, from no grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock, related to grc πέτρα. Later reinforced by the de Peter.
Proper noun
no male
en Peter biblical figure
Og det sier jeg deg: Du er Peter; på denne klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke. Bibelen, Matteus 16:18 (1985 transl.)
Related terms
male given names no Peder, no Peer, no Per, no Petter
feminine names no Pernille, no Petra, no Petrine
surnames no Pedersen, no Petersen, no Pettersen
References
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, 82-521-4483-7
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 327 males with the given name Peter (compared to 10 139 named Petter) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
no Biblical characters
Scots
Etymology
From sco enm Peter, from sco ang Petrus, from sco la Petrus, from sco grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock.
Pronunciation
sco /ˈpitər/
Proper noun
sco male Peter
Derived terms
sco diminutive Pate, Patie
sco 2-syllable words
Slovak
Pronunciation
peTer
Proper noun
m-pr
sk male Peter
Declension
m-pr Petra name
Further reading
Slovene
sl:
Pronunciation
Pẹ́tər
Proper noun
Pẹ́tər m-an
sl male Peter
Declension
Pétr 1 sg
Swedish
Etymology
From sv non Pétr, from sv la Petrus, from sv grc Πέτρος, from grc πέτρος stone, rock, related to grc πέτρα. Later reinforced by the German de Peter.
Pronunciation
sv /ˈpeːtɛr/ (without doubled "t")
sv /ˈpɛtr/ (with doubled "t": Petter)
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Peter.wav
Interjection
sv interjection
The letter "P" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Proper noun
c
sv male
Related terms
variants:
sv Peder
sv Per
sv Percy
sv Petrus
sv Pierre
sv Pär
feminine forms:
sv Pernilla
sv Petra
sv Petronella
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622:112 253 males with the given name Peter living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on May 19th, 2011.
Anagrams
sv eeprt repet