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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian قهرمان (qahramân, “hero”).
Noun
قهرمان • (kahraman)
- hero, someone who possess great bravery
- Synonyms: شاهباز (şahbaz), قوچ (koç), قوچاق (koçak), یگیت (yiğit)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kahraman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2337
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قهرمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 995
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Heros”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 693
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قهرمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2760
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kahraman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهرمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504
Persian
Etymology
From original کهرمان (kahramân), from a dialectal form of Middle Persian (kʾlplmʾn /kārframān/, “overseer, manager”), from Old Median *karhramāna-. The form with initial q- by association with Arabic قَهْر (qahr, “conquest, subjugation, violence, wrath”).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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qahramān
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| Dari reading?
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qahramān
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| Iranian reading?
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ğahramân
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| Tajik reading?
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qahramon
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Noun
| Dari
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قهرمان
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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қаҳрамон
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قهرمان • (qahramân) (plural قهرمانان (qahramânân) or قهرمانها (qahramân-hâ))
- champion; hero
- قهرمان افسانهای ― qahramân-e afsâne'i ― legendary hero
- (sports) champion
- قهرمان شنا ― qahramân-e šenâ ― swimming champion
- (fiction) hero, protagonist
- قهرمان فیلم اکشن ― qahramân-e film-e akšen ― action film hero
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Descendants
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