موبد
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See also: مؤبد
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Persian موبد (mowbed, mubed, “mobad”).
Noun
موبد • (mubed) (plural موبدان)
Descendants
- Turkish: mubid
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mubid”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3270
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موبد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1241
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موبد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5006
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موبد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2023
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic مُؤَبَّد (muʔabbad, “everlasting”).
Adjective
موبد • (muʿebbed)
Descendants
- Turkish: müebbet
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “müebbet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3350
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موبد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1241
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موبد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5006
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موبد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2023
Persian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (mgwpt' /mowbed/) with the same meaning, from Proto-Iranian *magu-pati- (literally “head of the Magi”). By surface analysis, مغ (moğ, “magus”) + ـبد (-bad, “lord, master”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մոգպետ (mogpet), մովպետան մովպետ (movpetan movpet), մուբիտան մուբիտ (mubitan mubit), Classical Syriac ܡܘܒܕ (mawbed), ܡܘܗܦܛܐ (mawhəp̄āṭā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | mōḇaḏ |
| Dari reading? | mōbad |
| Iranian reading? | mubad |
| Tajik reading? | mübad |
Noun
موبد • (mubad)
- mobad, a Zoroastrian priest
Further reading
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
- Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 121–122
- Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 122