Where does “Petra” come from?

Petra comes from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος, from the Ancient Greek common noun πέτρος meaning rock or stone.

Ancestry of “Petra”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	Peter	—
2	Middle English	Peter	—
3	Latin	Petrus	Peter
4	Indonesian	penembak	—
5	Indonesian	tembak	—
6	Malay	tembak	to shoot
7	Malay	timbak	Obsolete form of tembak
8	Proto-Malayic	timbak	—
9	Proto-Malayo-Polynesian	ti(m)bak	—

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