Babar
Babar (Template:Langx), also variously spelled as Baber,Template:Sfnp Babur,Template:Sfnp and Babor is a male given name of Central Asian extraction, and is a male given name in Pakistan.Template:Sfn It is generally taken in reference to the Persian babr (Persian: ببر), meaning "tiger".Template:Sfnp 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 striped cat", i.e. "tiger".
The word repeatedly appears in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and was borrowed into the Turkic languages of Central Asia.Template:Sfnp<ref>Thumb, Albert, Handbuch des Sanskrit, mit Texten und Glossar, German original, ed. C. Winter, 1953, Snippet, p. 318</ref> Thackston argues for an alternate derivation from the PIE word "beaver", pointing to similarities between the pronunciation Bābor and the Russian bobr (Template:Lang, "beaver").<ref name="baburnama">Template:Cite book</ref>
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 now also popular in Bahrain, and Afghanistan.
Geographical
- Babar Islands, a group of islands in the Southwest Maluku Regency in Maluku, Indonesia.
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) (born 1993), Indian educator
- Babar Ali Khan (1773–1810), Nawab of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa
- Babar Ali Khan (boxer) (1963–2025), Pakistani boxer
- 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 (born 1987), Pakistani actor and model
- Babar Khan (cricketer) (born 1993), Pakistani cricketer
- Babar Luck (born 1970), Pakistani-born British musician
- Babar Khan Ghauri (born 1961), Pakistani politician
- Babar Nawaz Khan (born 1986), 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 (born 1958), 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)
Clans
- Babar (Pashtun tribe), Pashtun tribe
- Babbar (tribe), Baloch tribe
Fiction
- Babar the Elephant, fictional character from a French children's book series