Peter is a common masculine

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, ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''

petra Petra (; "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu (Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: or , *''Raqēmō''), is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems, P ...

,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of

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''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new name

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Simon bar Jonah Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the Jewish Christian#Jerusalem ekklēsia, e ...

. An

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variant is Piers.

In other languages

The following names can be interpreted as Peter in English. *

Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...

Pieter Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch language, Dutch form of Peter (name), Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from a ...

, Petrus * Albanian: Pjetër, Për *

Amharic Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populati ...

: ጴጥሮስ ("Ṗeṭros") *

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: بطرس (''

Boutros Boutros, Botros or Butrus () is the Arabic form of the name '' Peter'', derived from Greek (''Petros''). It is generally used as a male given name, but may also be used as a surname. Notable persons with the name Boutros or variants include: ...

''), بيار (" Pierre," mainly in Lebanon), بيتر ("Peter," exact transcription) * Aragonese: Pietro, Pero, Piero, Pier *

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

: Պետրոս ( Bedros in the Western dialect, Petros in the Eastern dialect) * Assamese: পিটাৰ * Asturian: Pedru * Azerbaijani: Pyotr *

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

: Peru, Pello (diminutive), Pedro, Piarres, Harkaitz (''Means "Rock" in basque''), Arkaitz, Petri (Biblical), Kepa (neologism) * Belarusian: Пётр (Piotr), Пятро ( Piatro), Пятрусь (Piatruś) * Bengali: পিটার (''Piṭār''), পিতর (''Pitôr'') * Breton: Pêr * Bulgarian: Петър ( Petar), Пере, Перо (Pere, Pero), Петьо, Петю (Petyo, Petyu), Пеньо, Пеню, Пенко (Penyo, Penyu, Penko), Пельо, Пелю, Пелко (Pelyo, Pelyu, Pelko), Пешо (Pesho); Камен (Kamen) ("kamen, kamək" in Bulgarian means: stone) * Catalan: Pere * Cebuano: Pedro *

Standard Chinese Standard Chinese ( zh, s=现代标准汉语, t=現代標準漢語, p=Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ, l=modern standard Han speech) is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912–1949). ...

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Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

: 彼得 (Bǐdé) **

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: 伯多祿 (Bóduōlù) * Coptic: ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ (Ṗeṭros) * Cornish: Peder * Croatian: Petar, Pero, Periša, Perica, Pera, Pejo *

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus *Czech (surnam ...

: 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 Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

: 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: პეტრე (Petre) * German: Peter (''Note: The form "Peer" also occurs, albeit less commonly.'') *

: Πέτρος ( Petros) * Guarani: Peru * Gujarati: પીટર (Pīṭar) * Gungbe: Pita *

Haitian Creole Haitian Creole (; , ; , ), or simply Creole (), is a French-based creole languages, French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it ...

: Pierre (pronounced "Pyè") * Hausa: Bitrus *

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

: Pathrus, पीटर (Pīṭar) *

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

: פטרוס (Petros), פטר (literally Peter) * Hungarian: Péter; Petya, Peti (diminutive) * Icelandic: Pétur, Pési (diminutive) * Indonesian: Petrus, Peter * Irish: Piaras, Peadar *

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

Pietro Pietro is an Italian language, Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his dea ...

, Pier, Piero (Note: the word for stone in Italian is "pietra".) * Japanese: **

: ピーター (Pītā) **

: ペトロ (Petoro), ペテロ (Petero) ** Biblical contexts: ペトロス (Petorosu) * Khmer: Pathra *

Konkani __NOTOC__ Konkani may refer to: Language * Konkani language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Konkan region of India. * Konkani alphabets, different scripts used to write the language **Konkani in the Roman script, one of the scripts used to ...

: Pedru * Korean: 베드로 (Bedro); less commonly, 페트루스 (Petrus); 피터 (Pitə) * Lao: ເປໂຕ (Peot) *

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

: Petrus * Latvian: Pēteris *

Lingala Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: ) is a Bantu languages, Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser de ...

: Petelo * Lithuanian: Petras * Lombard: Peder *

Low German Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...

: Petrus *

Luganda Ganda or Luganda ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Ganda people, Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, includ ...

: Petero *

Luxembourgish Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. The language is standardized and officiall ...

: Pit, Pier * Macedonian: Петар (Petar), Питер (Piter), Петре (Petre), Перо (Pero), Пере (Pere), Перица (Perica) * Malagasy: Petera *

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

: പത്രോസ് (''Patrōs''), പീരി ("Peeri" from Pierre) * Maltese: Pietru * Manx: Peddyr * Māori: Petera, Pita * Marathi: पेत्र (Petrə), पेद्रो (Pedro) * Mongolian: Петр (Pyetr) * Montenegrin: Петар (Petar), Перо (Pero) * Nepali: पत्रुस (Patrus) * Norman: Pierre *

Northern Sami Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ...

: Pekka, Piera, Biera, Bierril, Bierža, Biehtár * Norwegian: Peter, Petter, Per, Pelle, Peder *

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

: Pedro *

Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...

: Pèire, Pèir, Pèr * Persian: Pedros, Pedrush * Polish: Piotr.

Diminutives A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle s ...

/ 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: ਪਤਰਸਨੂੰ (Patarasanū) * Quechua: Pidru, RumiRumi, el nombre inca de las rocas
/ref> * Romanian: Petru, Petre, Petrică (diminutive), Petrișor (diminutive) * Russian: Пётр (Pyotr), Питер (Piter), Петя (Petya) (diminutive), Петруха (Petrukha) (colloquial) * Samoan: Petelo * Sardinian: Pedru, Perdu, Pretu *

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

: Peadair * Serbian: Петар (Petar), Петер (Peter), Перо (Pero), Пера (Pera), Перица (Perica), Периша (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: ܦܛܪܘܣ (Peṭrus) * Tagalog: Pedro *

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

: Pethuru, Raayappar (in biblical contexts) * Telugu: పేతురు (Peturu) * (), เปโตร (Petro, in biblical contexts) * Tongan: Pita * Tswana: Petere, Pitoro * Turkish: Kaya (rock), Kayahan ( khan of rocks); Petrus, Petros (in biblical contexts) * Ukrainian: Петро (Petro), Пітер (Piter), Петрик (Petryk) (diminutive), Петрусь (Petrus) (diminutive) *

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

: پتھر (Rock) or پیٹر (''lit.'' Peter) * Uzbek: Pyotr (as in Russian) * Venetian: Piero * Vietnamese: Phê-rô * Võro: Piitre * Welsh: Pedr * West Frisian: Petrus * Yoruba: Peteru * Zulu: Petru

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