Given name · Kyrgyz · Russian
Искендер
Искендер (İskender) is a masculine given name from Classical Persian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Kyrgyz.
Kyrgyz and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Alexander.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Искендер comes from Classical Persian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Classical Persian اِسْکَنْدَر (iskandar), from Arabic اَلْإِسْكَنْدَر, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Искендер’s family of names
Искендер has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alexander. Искендер can be written in the Roman alphabet as İskender. In Russian usage, Искендер has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Ισκεντέρ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Искендер has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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