Peter

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.

Proper noun

 * 1) The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
 * 2)  The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
 * , named after.
 * 1) The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
 * 2)  The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.
 * , named after.

Related terms

 * given name variants: Peers, Percy, Pete, Petey, Pierce, Piers
 * feminine forms: Peta, Petra

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: Pjétër, Pjétro, Pétër, Pétro
 * Amharic: ጴጥሮስ
 * Arabic: بُطْرُس, بِيتَر
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Basque:, , Petri
 * Bavarian: Bäda, Beda
 * Belarusian: Пётр, Пятро́
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: Pedro
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min: 彼得
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: Петӗр
 * Cornish: Peder
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, Peder, Per
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian: Pîr
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: Peeter
 * Faroese:, Pætur, Per
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Franco-Provençal: Pierro
 * French:
 * Friulian: Pieri
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პეტრე
 * German: ,
 * Alemannic German: Peder
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient Greek: Πέτρος
 * Greenlandic:, Piitaq
 * Hawaiian: Pekelo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पीटर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: Petrus
 * Indonesian: Petrus
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ピーター
 * Konkani: पेद्रु
 * Korean: 피터
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: Petrus
 * Lithuanian: Pẽtras
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Päiter
 * Luxembourgish: Péiter
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: पीटर
 * Mongolian: Петр
 * Norman: Pièrre, Piteur
 * Northern Sami: Piera
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Occitan:, Pèr,
 * Old Church Slavonic: Петръ
 * Old Norse: Pétr
 * Persian: پیتر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Cyrillic: Петру, Петре
 * Romansch: Peider
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Predu
 * Scots: Peter
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Пѐтар
 * Roman: Pètar
 * Sicilian: Petru
 * Sinhalese: පේතෘස්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Pětš
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil: பீட்டர்
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ጴጥሮስ
 * Turkish: Petrus, Petros
 * Ukrainian: Петро́, Пі́тер
 * Urdu: پطرس
 * Venetian: Piero
 * Vietnamese: Phêrô
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: Pedro
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Piter
 * Wolof: Piyeer
 * Yakut: Бүөтүр
 * Yiddish: פּעטרוס
 * Zealandic: Petrus


 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐕗𐔴𐕜𐕙𐕒𐕚
 * Albanian: Pjétri, Pétro,
 * Amharic: ጴጥሮስ
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:, , Petri
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: Pedro
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 彼得, 伯多祿, 伯鐸 , 裴特若
 * Eastern Min: 彼得, 伯多祿, 伯鐸
 * Hakka: 彼得
 * Hokkien: 彼得, 伯多祿
 * Mandarin:, , 伯鐸 , 裴特若
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian: Pîr
 * Estonian: Peetrus
 * Faroese: Pætur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Pieri
 * Georgian: პეტრე
 * German: Petrus
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Πέτρος
 * Greenlandic:, Piitaq
 * Gujarati: પિતર
 * Hawaiian: Petero
 * Hebrew: פטרוס
 * Hindi: पतरस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: Petrus
 * Indonesian: Petrus
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: Petur
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペトロ, ペテロ, ペトロス
 * Kazakh: Петір
 * Konkani: पेद्रु
 * Korean: ^베드로
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پێترۆس, بوتڕوس
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: Petrus
 * Lithuanian: Pẽtras
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Päiter
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maore Comorian: Monye
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian: Петр, Хад
 * Norman: Pièrre
 * Northern Sami: Biehtár
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic: Петръ
 * Old English: Petrus
 * Old Norse: Pétr
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: Peter
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Пѐтар
 * Roman: Pètar
 * Sicilian: Santu Petru
 * Sindhi: پطرس
 * Sinhalese: ශුද්ධවූ පේදුරු තුමා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Butros
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: เปโตร
 * Tibetan: པེ་ཏྲོ
 * Tigrinya: ጴጥሮስ
 * Ukrainian: Петро́
 * Urdu: پطرس
 * Vietnamese: Phêrô, Phierơ
 * Waray-Waray: Pedro
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Petrus
 * Wolof: Piyeer
 * Zealandic: Petrus


 * Afrikaans:
 * Amharic: የጴጥሮስ መልእክት
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܦܛܪܘܣ
 * Armenian:
 * Awadhi: पतरस
 * Basque:, , Petri
 * Bavarian: Beda
 * Breton:
 * Burmese: ရှင်ပေတရု​ဩဝါဒစာ​ပဌမစောင်, ရှင်ပေတရု​ဩဝါဒစာ​ဒုတိယစောင်
 * Cebuano: Pedro
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 彼得
 * Eastern Min: 彼得
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Petersbrev,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: Pætur
 * Finnish: Pietarin kirje
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Πέτρος
 * Greenlandic:, Piitaq
 * Hawaiian: Petero
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: Petrus
 * Indonesian: Petrus
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペテロの手紙
 * Kazakh: Петірдің хаты
 * Khmer: ពេត្រុស​ទី​
 * Konkani: पेद्रुचें पत्र
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پەترۆس
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: Petrus
 * Lithuanian: Pẽtras,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Päiter
 * Macedonian: Петрово
 * Malayalam: പത്രൊസ്
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Norwegian:, , Pet
 * Odia: ପିତରଙ୍କ
 * Polish: List świętego Piotra Apostoła; List św. Piotra; List Piotra;
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪਤਰਸ
 * Romanian:
 * Scots: Peter
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: Petrov
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Butros
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, Petrusbrevet,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: เปโตร
 * Turkish: Petrus'un
 * Uzbek: Butrus
 * Vietnamese: Phêrô, Phierơ
 * Waray-Waray: Pedro
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Piter
 * Zealandic: Petrus


 * Finnish: ,


 * Amharic:
 * Hindi:

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , related to.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , related to. Later reinforced by the German.

Proper noun

 * 1)  biblical figure.
 * Og jeg siger dig, at du er Peter, og på den klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke, ---  Bibelen, Matthæus 16:18 (1992 transl.)
 * Og jeg siger dig, at du er Peter, og på den klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke, ---  Bibelen, Matthæus 16:18 (1992 transl.)

Etymology
From, from , from , from , as a name a loan translation of.

Etymology
, from, from , related to.

Related terms

 * biblical form:

Usage notes

 * The unchanged plural is preferred in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
 * In northern and central Germany, both forms are common for the given name, but the surname usually takes in the plural.

Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
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Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , related to. Later reinforced by the 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * 1)  biblical figure
 * Og det sier jeg deg: Du er Peter; på denne klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke. Bibelen, Matteus 16:18 (1985 transl.)
 * Og det sier jeg deg: Du er Peter; på denne klippe vil jeg bygge min kirke. Bibelen, Matteus 16:18 (1985 transl.)

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Derived terms

 * Pate, Patie

Etymology
From, from , from , from , related to. Later reinforced by the German.

Pronunciation

 * (without doubled "t")
 * (with doubled "t": Petter)

Interjection

 * 1) The letter "P" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Related terms
variants: feminine forms: