Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , Petros (an invented, masculine form of Greek petra, the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic Kefa ("stone, rock"), the new name Jesus gave to apostle Simon bar Jonah. An Old English variant is Piers.
In other languages The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English.
Afrikaans: Pieter, Petrus Albanian: Pjetër, Për Amharic: ("Boutros") Arabic: (Boutros), ("Pierre", mainly in Lebanon), ("Peter", exact transcription) Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier Armenian: (Bedros in the Western dialect, Petros in the Eastern dialect) Assamese: Asturian: Pedru Azerbaijani: Pyotr Basque: Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Harkaitz (Means "Rock" in Basque), Arkaitz, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism) Belarusian: (Piotr), (Piatro), (Piatruś) Bengali: (Piṭār), (Pitôr) Breton: Pêr Bulgarian: (Petar), , (Pere, Pero), , (Petyo, Petyu), , , (Penyo, Penyu, Penko), , , (Pelyo, Pelyu, Pelko), (Pesho); (Kamen) ("kamen, kamək" in Bulgarian means: stone) Catalan: Pere Cebuano: Pedro Standard Chinese: Protestant: (Bǐdé) Catholic: (Bóduōlù) Coptic: ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ (Ṗeṭros) Cornish: Peder Croatian: Petar, Pero, Periša, Perica, Pera, Pejo Czech: Petr, Péťa (diminutive) Danish: Peter, Peder, Per, Peer, Pelle Dutch: Pieter, Peter, Piet, Pier (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly.) Emiliano-Romagnolo: Pédor Esperanto: Petro Estonian: Peeter, Peep, Peetrus, Pavo, Peedo Faroese: Pætur, Petur, Per Filipino: Pedro, Pedring (diminutive) Frisian: Piter, Pier Finnish: Pietari, Pekka, Petri, Petteri French: Pierre (Note: the word for stone in French is also "pierre".) Galician: Pedro Georgian: (Petre) German: Peter (Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly.) Greek: (Petros) Guarani: Peru Gujarati: (Pīṭar) Gungbe: Pita Haitian Creole: Pierre (pronounced "Pyè") Hausa: Bitrus Hindi: Pathrus, (Pīṭar) Hebrew: (Petros), (literally Peter) Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive) Icelandic: Pétur, Pési (diminutive) Indonesian: Petrus, Peter Irish: Piaras, Pierce, Peadar Italian: Pietro, Pier, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra".) Japanese: Protestant: (Pītā) Catholic: (Petoro), (Petero) Biblical contexts: (Petorosu) Kazakh: (Petr) Khmer: Pathra Konkani: Pedru Korean: (Bedro); less commonly, (Petrus); (Pitə) Lao: (Peot) Latin: Petrus Latvian: Pēteris Lingala: Petelo Lithuanian: Petras Lombard: Peder Low German: Petrus Luganda: Petero Luxembourgish: Pit, Pier Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Питер (Piter), Петре (Petre), Перо (Pero), Пере (Pere), Перица (Perica) Malagasy: Petera Malayalam: (Patrōs), ("Peeri" from Pierre) Maltese: Pietru Manx: Peddyr Māori: Petera, Pita Marathi: (Petrə), (Pedro) Mongolian: (Pyetr) Montenegrin: (Petar), (Pero) Nepali: (Patrus) Norman: Pierre Northern Sami: Pekka, Piera, Biera, Bierril, Bierža, Biehtár Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per, Pelle, Peder Nahuatl: Pedro Occitan: Pèire, Pèir, Pèr Persian: Pedros, Pedrush Polish: Piotr. Diminutives/hypocoristics include Piotrek, Piotruś, and Piotrunio. Piotr has several name days in Poland. Portuguese: Pedro, Pêro (old Portuguese) (Note: The word for stone in Portuguese is "pedra".) Punjabi: (Patarasanū) Quechua: Pidru, RumiRumi, el nombre inca de las rocas Romanian: Petru, Petre, Petrică (diminutive), Petrișor (diminutive) Russian: (Pyotr), (Piter), (Petya) (diminutive), (Petrukha) (colloquial) Samoan: Petelo Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Pretu Scottish Gaelic: Peadair Serbian: (Petar), (Peter), (Pero), (Pera), (Perica), (Periša) Sicilian: Pietru Silesian: Pyjter, Piter Sinhala: Peduru Slovak: Peter, Peťo Slovene: Peter Spanish: Pedro Swahili: Petero Swedish: Peter, Petter, Peder, Per, Pehr, Pär, Pelle, Pälle Syriac: (Peṭrus) Tagalog: Pedro Tamil: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts) Telugu: (Peturu) (), (Petro, in biblical contexts) Tongan: Pita Tswana: Petere, Pitoro Turkish: Kaya (rock), Kayahan (khan of rocks); Petrus, Petros (in biblical contexts) Ukrainian: (Petro), Пітер (Piter), (Petryk) (diminutive), (Petrus) (diminutive) Urdu: (Rock) or (lit. Peter) Uzbek: Pyotr (as in Russian) Venetian: Piero Vietnamese: Phê-rô Võro: Piitre Welsh: Pedr West Frisian: Petrus Yoruba: Peteru Zulu: Petru
People named Peter (or commonly known as Peter)
See also Pete (nickname), a list of people (excluding Peters) Pete (given name), a list of people (with the given name) Petros (disambiguation) Pierce (disambiguation) List of people with given name Piotr List of people with given name Pyotr
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