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Azerbaijani
Noun
чобан (definite accusative чобаны, plural чобанлар)
- Cyrillic spelling of çoban (“shepherd”)
Declension
Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چوبان (çoban) (Turkish çoban), from Persian چوبان (čubân).
Pronunciation
Noun
чоба́н • (čobán) m (feminine чоба́нка)
- (archaic or dialectal) male shepherd
- Synonyms: овчар (ovčar), пастир (pastir)
Declension
References
- Krǎsteva, Vesela (2003) “чобан”, in Тълковен речник на турцизмите в българския език [Explanatory Dictionary of Turkisms in the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Skorpio vi, page 231
Macedonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چوبان (çoban) (Turkish çoban), from Persian چوبان (čubân).
Pronunciation
Noun
чобан • (čoban) m
- (folk poetic) shepherd
- Synonym: овчар m (ovčar)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چوبان (çoban), from Persian چوبان (čubân). Akin to чо̀бан-ба̀ша, Чоба́нија, чоба̀нлук.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃǒban/
- Hyphenation: чо‧бан
Noun
чо̀бан m (Latin spelling čòban)
- shepherd
- Synonyms: па̀стӣр, о̀вча̄р
- (derogatory) boor, hick (uncultured or rude person)
Declension
References
- “чобан”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 178