Bahrām ( fa, بهرام) is a male given name. Other variants Behram, Bahran, Vahran, and Vahram ( uz, Баҳром, Bahrom and
Tajik: Баҳром, Bahrom)
The older form is
Vahrām
Verethragna ( ae, 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 ') is an Indo-Iranians, Indo-Iranian deity.
The neuter noun ''verethragna'' is related to Avestan ''verethra'', 'obstacle' and ''verethragnan'', 'victorious'. Representing this concep ...
( pal, 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭, in la, Varrames), also spelled Wahrām, literally meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious". It is name of several prominent figures in pre-Islamic Persia.
In the
Pahlavi language
Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Per ...
(Middle Persian), Bahram is another name of the
Zoroastrian
Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic on ...
divinity
Verethragna
Verethragna ( ae, 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀 ') is an Indo-Iranian deity.
The neuter noun ''verethragna'' is related to Avestan ''verethra'', 'obstacle' and ''verethragnan'', 'victorious'. Representing this concept is the divin ...
in
Avestan language
Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...
, that is the hypostasis of victory and represents the planet
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
.
Historic people
* One of the Sassanid kings by that name:
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Bahrām I, ''r.'' 273-276
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Bahrām II, ''r.'' 276-293
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Bahrām III, ''r.'' 293
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Ardashir II
Ardashir II ( pal, 𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥, Ardašīr), was the Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 379 to 383. He was the brother of his predecessor, Shapur II (), under whom he had served as vassal king of Adiabene, where he fought along ...
, ''r.'' 379–383, who also went by the name 'Ardashir Vahram'
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Bahrām IV, ''r.'' 388–399
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Bahrām V Gōr, ''r.'' 421–438 (often known as Bahram Gur)
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Bahrām VI Čōbīn, ''r.'' 590-591
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Bahram VII
Bahram VII (Middle Persian: ''Wahrām'') was the son of Yazdegerd III, the last Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire. After the death of his father at Merv in 651, Bahram fled to China along with many other Sasanian nobles, where he and his brother ...
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Bahram Khan
Bahram Khan was the governor of Sonargaon, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), from 1328 until 1337. He was a general of Delhi Sultanate. He was also appointed the governor of Satgaon during 1324–1328.
Sonargaon ruler
Khan contributed to th ...
, 14th-century governor based in Bengal
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Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan
Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan ( bn, দৌলত উজির বাহরাম খান, Doulot Uzir Bahram Khan), born as Asaduddin, was a 16th-century medieval Bengali poet and the Wazir of Chittagong in southeastern Bengal.
He is best known for ...
, 16th-century Bengali poet and Vizier of Chittagong
* Armenian king
Gushnasp Vahram, ''r.'' 509/514-518
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Vahram Pahlavouni
Vahram Pahlavouni (965–1046) was an Armenian army commander (sparapet) and Prince of Bjni and Nik in Bagratuni Armenia. He was the head of the noble family of Pahlavouni, who held the hereditary title of sparapet in the Bagratuni kingdom of Ani. ...
an Armenian army commander
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Bahram ibn Shahriyar, Bavandid prince
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Muiz ud din Bahram
Muiz ud-Din Bahram (9 July 1212 – 15 May 1242, ) was the sixth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty.
Life
He was the son of Shams ud din Iltutmish (1211–36) and the half-brother of Razia Sultan (1236–40). While his sister was imprisoned in B ...
, the sixth sultan of Delhi
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Bahram Nouraei, Iranian Hip Hop Artist
Other
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Bahram (Shahnameh), a heroic character in ''Shahnameh'', the national epic of Greater Iran
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Bahram (horse)
Bahram (1932–1956) was an Irish-bred, English-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In a career which lasted from July 1934 until September 1935 he was undefeated in nine races. The leading British two-year-old of 1934, he went on to take the Triple ...
, the 1935 Triple Crown Champion of British Thoroughbred Racing
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Bahram, Iran (disambiguation)
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Bihram
In Mandaeism, Bihram ( myz, ࡁࡉࡄࡓࡀࡌ) or Bihram Rabba ( myz, ࡁࡉࡄࡓࡀࡌ ࡓࡁࡀ, "Bihram the Great") is an uthra (angel or guardian) who presides over the ''masbuta'', or baptism ritual. Bihram is mentioned in Mandaean texts su ...
, a Mandaean celestial being and given name
* The Persian language name for the planet
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
See also
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Bahram (name)
Bahram or Vahram or Behram ( fa, بهرام ), variant Bahran or Vahran, ( uz, Баҳром, Bahrom and Tajik: Баҳром, Bahrom) meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious", is a Persian name.
Bahram means "victorious" in Middle Persia ...
, a popular male Persian given name
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Vahram (disambiguation)
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