köken: From Ескендір (Eskendır, “Alexander”) + Arabic ذُو الْقَرْنَيْن (ḏū l-qarnayn, “Dhu'l-Qarnayn”), a legendary Islamic figure, traditionally associated with Alexander the Great.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian سِکَنْدَر (sikandar), from earlier اِسْکَنْدَر (iskandar). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi سکندر (skndr /sikandar/).