پاسبان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پاسوان (pasvan), پازواند (pazvand), پازونت (pazvant), پازوند (pazvand)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پاسبان (pāsbān).

Noun

پاسبان • (pasban)

1. sentinel, guard, watchman, person who keeps watch

   Synonym: نوبتجی (nevbetçi, nöbetçi)

Descendants

• Turkish: pazvant
• → Albanian: pazvan
• → Aromanian: pãzvan, pãzvandu
• → Bulgarian: пазва́н (pazván), пазва́нт (pazvánt)
• → Greek: πασβάντης (pasvántis), παζβάντης (pazvántis)
• → Macedonian: пазван (pazvan), пазвант m (pazvant); пазвантин m (pazvantin)
• → Romanian: pazvan, pazvant
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пазван

  Latin script: pazvan

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (pʾspʾn' /⁠pāsbān⁠/, “guard, watcher”), which is akin to Old Armenian պահապան (pahapan), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

پاسْبان • (pâsbân) (plural پاسبانان (pâsbânân) or پاسبان‌ها (pâsbân-hâ))

1. policeman
2. sentinel, guard, watchman
3. shepherd
4. angels

Synonyms

• پاسدار (pâsdâr)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: փասպան (pʻaspan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاسبان (pasban), پاسوان (pasvan), پازواند (pazvand), پازونت (pazvant), پازوند (pazvand)
  • Turkish: pazvant
  • → Albanian: pazvan
  • → Aromanian: pãzvan, pãzvandu
  • → Bulgarian: пазва́н (pazván), пазва́нт (pazvánt)
  • → Greek: πασβάντης (pasvántis), παζβάντης (pazvántis)
  • → Macedonian: пазван (pazvan), пазвант m (pazvant); пазвантин m (pazvantin)
  • → Romanian: pazvan, pazvant
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пазван

    Latin script: pazvan

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پاسبان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑːs.bɑːn/

Noun

پاسْبان • (pāsbān) m (Hindi spelling पासबान)

1. guard, watchman

Declension