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Александар
“to ward off; to protect”·“man”
Александар (Aleksandar) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian.
Bosnian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbian and Serbo-Croatian and rsk and unknownWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Aleksandar.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Александар is built from elements meaning “to ward off; to protect” and “man” and “man”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Александар comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Александар developed from Ἀλέξανδρος.
Александар’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Александар has a diminutive in Алек. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Александар developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀλέξανδρος. In Macedonian usage, Александар has a conventional equivalent in the German form Alexander.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Александар has relatives in 24 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Александар comes from · 2 names
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AlexanderGerman
- AlejandroSpanish
- AlessandroPortuguese, Italian
- AlistairScottish Gaelic
- AlecIrish
- AleksanderPolish
- AlisterScottish Gaelic
- AlexandrePortuguese, French
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- AlastairScottish Gaelic
- Aleksandrequivalent
- AlasdairScottish Gaelic
- AlexandrCzech
- AlexandruRomanian
- AlastarIrish
- AlesanderBasque
- Александърequivalent
- АлександрRussian
- Алеѯандръsource · cu
- Ἀλέξανδροςroot · Ancient Greek
- IksenderTurkish
- AlesantSwedish
- AlsanderIrish
- ΑλέξανδροςGreek, Ancient Greek
- AleksanteriFinnish
- AleksandurFaroese
- AleksandroEsperanto
- AlechjoEsperanto
People named Александар
- Aleksandar StavrevMacedonian football refereeborn 1977
- Aleksandar VasiljevićSerbian footballer (born 2001)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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