Given name · Armenian · Classical Armenian
Պետրոս
“stone”
Պետրոս (Petros) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Armenian and Old Armenian.
Armenian and Classical ArmenianWritten in Armenian script. In English: Peter.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Պետրոս goes back to Ancient Greek Πέτρος, meaning “stone.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Πέτρος, from Ancient Greek πέτρος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Պետրոս’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Պետրոս has a diminutive in Պեպո. In Armenian usage, Պետրոս has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter. In Armenian usage, Պետրոս has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Pietro.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Պետրոս has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
10 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Պետրոս
- Bedros TourianArmenian poet (1851-1872)
- Petros MarkarisTurkish-Greek writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1936)
- Bedros AtamianArmenian actor (1849-1891)
- Petros AvetisyanArmenian football playerborn 1996
- Bedros KeresteciyanOttoman Armenian linguist and journalist.1840–1907
- Bedros HadjianArmenian writer and journalist (1933-2012)
- Bedros ZaroyanArmenian writer1903–1986
- Petros GhevondyanArmenian politician (1964-1994)
- Petros MalayanArmenian painter (1927-1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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