Save Gender Masculine Usage Arabic, Malay, Indonesian Scripts بكري(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. /ˈbak.riːj/(Arabic) /ˈba.kri/(Indonesian) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "early riser" in Arabic, from the word بكر (bakara) meaning "to be early". Alternately it could be considered a derivative of the name Bakr.