شاهباز

Ottoman Turkish

شاهباز

Alternative forms

• شهباز (şahbaz)
• շահպազ (şahbaz) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “eagle”).

Noun

شاهباز • (şahbaz)

1. gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

   Synonym: آق طوغان (ak doğan)

2. (figuratively) champion, hero, a valiant man

   Synonyms: قوچ (koç), قوچاق (koçak), قهرمان (kahraman), یگیت (yiğit)

Descendants

• Turkish: şahbaz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahbaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4414
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهباز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 717
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Falco”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 546
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شاهباز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2760
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahbaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهباز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1112