Bahram
Bahrām (Persian: بهرام) is a male given name. Other variants Behram, Bahran, Vahran, and Vahram (Uzbek: Баҳром, Bahrom and Tajik: Баҳром, Bahrom)
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The older form is Vahrām (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭, in Latin: 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), Bahram is another name of the Zoroastrian divinity Verethragna in Avestan language, that is the hypostasis of victory and represents the planet Mars.
Historic people
- One of the Sassanid kings by that name:
- Bahrām I, r. 273-276
- Bahrām II, r. 276-293
- Bahrām III, r. 293
- Ardashir II, r. 379–383, who also went by the name 'Ardashir Vahram'
- Bahrām IV, r. 388–399
- Bahrām V Gōr, r. 421–438 (often known as Bahram Gur)
- Bahrām VI Čōbīn, r. 590-591
- Bahram VII
- Bahram Khan, 14th-century governor based in Bengal
- Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan, 16th-century Bengali poet and Vizier of Chittagong
- Armenian king Gushnasp Vahram, r. 509/514-518
- Vahram Pahlavouni an Armenian army commander
- Bahram ibn Shahriyar, Bavandid prince
- Muiz ud din Bahram, the sixth sultan of Delhi
- Bahram Nouraei, Iranian Hip Hop Artist
Other
- Bahram (Shahnameh), a heroic character in Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran
- Bahram (horse), the 1935 Triple Crown Champion of British Thoroughbred Racing
- Bahram, Iran (disambiguation)
- Bihram, a Mandaean celestial being and given name
- The Persian language name for the planet Mars
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