“Dark” in German is Dunkel. Father in German is Vater. So if the character's name was Dunkel Vater, then it would mean “Dark Father.”
According to George Lucas, "Darth" is a variation of "dark," while "Vader" means "father." (The Dutch word for "father" is "vader," but is pronounced differently; the German "vater" has a closer pronunciation to the name.)
Though you could choose Vader for baby's name, it might be worth noting that that word in German means "father". However, Darth means "dark" which could be a way more reasonable inspiration for one of, historically, the best bad guys out there.
Vader means "father" in Dutch. Vater means "father" in German.
Darth Vader = Dark Vador
That old pesky "th" sound is a problem for French tongues so Darth Vader had to be given a Gallic name as change - well, more of an Anglo name change as he became "Dark Vador" on French screens.
It helps that Maul continued to show in other Star Wars media, such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. As for his name, it comes from the verb 'maul,' which means to mangle and bruise.
Put simply, “Darth” is the title that precedes a Sith Lord's name, and roughly translates to “Dark Lord.” The term was used by the ancient Sith, and preserved by Darth Bane, a Sith Lord who survived the Jedi-Sith War. He was the one who passed down the ways of the Sith to more “modern” Sith masters.
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Sheev Palpatine, also known by his Sith name Darth Sidious, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. Initially credited as the Emperor in the original trilogy films, he serves as the main antagonist of the nine-film Skywalker saga, in which he is portrayed by Ian McDiarmid.
1 Darth Sidious
There has been no Sith, as powerful, meticulous, nor as evil as the Emperor himself, Darth Sidious. As previously mentioned, Sidious trained in the Dark Side by Darth Plagueis before Sidious killed Plagueis in his sleep, making Sidious a Sith Master.
Vader, the only power who overrules him is papa Palpatine. The reason why Vader obeyed tarkin was out of a sense of respect for him as a military leader, not as his superior.
Even though Kylo Ren uses a red lightsaber, harnesses the dark side of the Force, and wears a cape, he is not a Sith. Because of that, he can never hold the title of Darth. Instead, he was just a chaotic mess of the dark side (until he eventually found his way back to the light).
Decades later his son Luke Skywalker achieves the same rank in the Rebellion. Sky Guy is the nickname that Ahsoka Tano, Anakin's apprentice, calls Anakin in The Clone Wars movie and The Clone Wars television series. Dark Lord of the Sith is Darth Vader's full, formal title.
Sidious had given the title of "Darth Vader" to Anakin Skywalker because at the time he believed that the fallen Jedi was worthy of bearing a Sith name.
“Vader” means “Father” in Dutch. Did Lucas know all along? : r/StarWars.
Definitions. The main German word for “darkness” is “Dunkelheit” (f.), from the adjective “dunkel”, meaning “dark”.
[ˈmenɪs] 1. Bedrohung f (to +gen); (issued by a person) Drohung f ; (= imminent danger) drohende Gefahr.
According to Star Wars Legends content, the first Sith was a former Jedi Master, Ajunta Pall, who became a so-called Dark Jedi, or “Fallen” Jedi. As the name implies, these Force-sensitives chose to practice the Dark Side, and rejected the Light Side of the Force.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, later known as Ben Kenobi during his exile and then Darth Rage after turning to the dark side to save Luke Skywalker from the wrath of Darth Raxus The Sith Emperor's most loyal Sith Lord.
After the Sith were decimated by the Jedi Knights of a thousand years ago, Bane enacted the Sith rule of two: there would be only two active Sith at one time -- a Dark Lord to embody the power, and an apprentice to crave it.
Snoke Is Not a Sith Lord
But the fact that he's a bio-engineered being created by Palpatine explains why his training of Kylo Ren followed the Sith mold so closely, since all along Palpatine was trying to manipulate Ren.
How about Dutch? Well, in Dutch, Dark is Donker, and father is, in fact, “Vader,” but it's pronounced very, very differently; the word for “father” in Dutch, while spelled V-a-d-e-r, is pronounced in a way that roughly rhymes with English “father”.
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
The novel covers the later life and machinations of Darth Plagueis (born Hego Damassk II), over a roughly fifty-year period pre-dating and culminating concurrently with the climax of The Phantom Menace.
Dooku voluntarily left the light side behind and became Darth Sidious' dark side disciple, taking the secret name Darth Tyranus and leading the Separatist army.