Peter (first name)
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For disambiguation and list of people named "Peter", see: Peter.
"Petros" redirects here. For the town in Tennessee, see Petros, Tennessee.
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| Pronunciation | PEE-tur, PE-ter, PAY-tur |
| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | stone |
| Origin | Greek |
| Related names | Pete, Pearce, Pedro, Per, Peta, Petra, Pierre |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Peter |
Peter is a popular male given name. It comes from the Greek word πετρος (petros) meaning "stone" (petra in Latin), which is used in the form petro- to mean rock.
According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Apostle Peter (whose given name was Simon) the name Rock (Kephas or Cephas in Aramaic). The name was later transliterated into Latin as Petrus, from which the English form Peter derives.
[edit] In other languages
The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English:
- Afrikaans: Pieter
- Albanian: Pjetër
- Amharic: P.et.ros
- Arabic: بطرس (Boutros)
- Armenian: Պետրոս (Bedros in Western dialect, Petros in Eastern dialect)
- Basque: Kepa, Peio, Peru
- Belarusian: Пётра (Piotra) and Пятро (Piatro)
- Bulgarian: Петър (Petar)
- Catalan: Pere
- Chinese: 彼得 (bi3de5, pite )
- Cornish: Peder
- Czech: Petr
- Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer (archaic), Pelle
- Estonian: Peeter
- Faroese: Pætur
- Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri
- French: Pierre (Note: True to the Greek, the word for stone in French is also "pierre")
- German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly. The Biblical Peter is translated as "Petrus".)
- Greek: Πέτρος (Pronounced Petros)
- Hindi: Pathrus
- Hebrew : פטרוס (Petros)
- Hungarian: Péter
- Icelandic: Pétur
- Indian: Kaunteya
- Irish: Peadar
- Italian: Pietro, Piero
- Korean: 베드로 (Bedeuro; or, less commonly, 페트루스; Peteuruseu), 피터 (Piteo)
- Japanese: ピーター (Piitaa), and in Biblical contexts ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero), or ペトロス (Petorosu)
- Latin: Petrus
- Latvian: Pēteris
- Lithuanian: Petras
- Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Петре (Petre)
- Malayalam: Pathrose
- Maltese: Pietru
- Manx: Peddyr
- Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per
- Persian: پطرس (Petros)
- Polish: Piotr, Piotrek (equivalent to Pete), Piotruś (diminutive)
- Portuguese: Pedro, Pêro (old Portuguese)
- Romanian: Petru, Petre
- Russian: Пётр (Pyotr), Петя (Petya) (diminutive)
- Serbian: Петар, Petar
- Silesian: Pyjter, Piter
- Slovak: Peter
- Slovenian: Peter
- Spanish: Pedro
- Swedish: Peter, Per, Pär, Pelle
- Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts)
- Ukrainian: Петро (Petro), Петрик (Petryk) (diminutive), Петрусь (Petrus') (diminutive)
- Welsh: Pedr
