Given name & surname · Persian · Urdu
اختر
“planet”
اختر (axtar) is a unisex given name, possibly from Middle Persian. It is used in Urdu and Persian.
Persian and UrduWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: axtar.
Meaning & origin
What it means
اختر possibly goes back to a word meaning “planet.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
اختر’s family of names
In Persian usage, اختر can be written in the Roman alphabet as axtar.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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