Perhaps there has been an evolution over time.

Platts includes it as an entry but messes up on its actual meaning. As far as I am aware like Persian its babar and via Indic roots baagh, I quite like nimr too since a tiger could quite easily be called a nimrnii and a cub nimr-chah. Lastly one thing I do not get is that whilst babar alone means a tiger why does a babar-Sher equate to a lion? Similarly in that case would babarii be leonine or tigerish? Considering Tigers and not Lions are native to the region at least in greater numbers there ought to be a clear distinction between the two. Would highly appreciate it if someone could tell me how the word for leopard above is meant to be pronounced. Similarly Leopard is explicitly tendwaa/tendu'aa. I would assume the same is the case for both Pashto and Dari since the British named one of their operations in Qandahar as panjah e palang and have translated it as the Panther's claw/s.

Palang so far as Urdu is concerned is merely used for a panther.

What is lion in hindi