Peter (name)
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Peter is a popular male given name. It comes from the Greek word πέτρα (read petra, in Latin used as petro-), meaning rock.
According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Apostle Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Rock (Kephas or Cephas in Aramaic; Petros in Greek). The name was later transliterated into Latin as Petrus, from which the English form Peter derives.
[edit] In other languages
The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English:
- Albanian: Pjetër
- Amaric: P.et.ros
- Arabic: بطرس (Boutros)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (Bedros in Western dialect, Petros in Eastern dialect)
- Basque: Kepa, Peio, Peru
- Belarusian: Пётра (Piotra) and Пятро (Piatro)
- Bulgarian: Петър (Petar)
- Catalan: Pere
- Chinese: 彼得
- Cornish: Peder
- Czech: Petr
- Dutch: Peter, Pieter, Piet (Note: The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
- Estonian: Peeter
- Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
- French: Pierre (Note: True to the Greek, the word for stone in French is also "pierre")
- German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
- Greek: Πέτρος (Pronounced Petros)
- Hindi: Pathrus
- Hebrew : פטר (Peter)
- Hungarian: Péter
- Icelandic: Pétur
- Irish: Peadar
- Italian: Pietro, Piero
- Korean: 베드로 (Bedeuro; or, less commonly, 페트루스; Peteuruseu), 피터 (Piteo)
- Japanese: ピーター (Piitaa), and in Biblical contexts ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero), or ペトロス (Petorosu)
- Latin: Petrus
- Latvian: Pēteris
- Lithuanian: Petras
- Malayalam: Pathros
- Maltese: Pietru
- Persian: پطرس (Petros)
- Polish: Piotr, Piotrek (equivalent to Pete), Piotruś (diminutive)
- Portuguese: Pedro
- Romanian: Petru
- Russian: Пётр (Pyotr), Петя (Petya) (diminutive)
- Scandinavian languages: Peter, Petter, Peder, Per, Pär, Peer (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian: Петар (Petar)
- Slovak: Peter
- Spanish: Pedro
- Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts)
- Ukrainian: Петро (Petro), Петрик (Petryk) (diminutive), Петрусь (Petrus') (diminutive)
- Welsh: Pedr
