bpl

Uncertain. Possiblities:

• Ultimately derived from Sumerian 𒌨𒁇𒊏 (urbarra, literally “outside dog, wild predator”) likely inherited from an Old Persian form, becoming semantically specified from the more general "wild predators."
• Dubiously connected to Proto-Indo-Iranian *wy(H)āgʰrás. Cognate with Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghrá)—see there for more—and related to Old Armenian վագր (vagr) and Old Georgian ვიგრი (vigri); both loanwords from Iranian.

bpl • (babr)

1. tiger

• → Arabic: بَبْر (babr)
• Classical Persian: ببر (babr) (see there for further descendants)

  Dari: ببر (babr)

  Iranian Persian: ببر (babr)

  Tajik: бабр (babr)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press