چوبان

See also: چوپان

Ottoman Turkish

چوبان

Alternative forms

• شبان (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان (şoban, şuban, şüben)
• չօպան (çoban) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چوپان (čupân, “shepherd”), from Middle Persian 𐫢𐫇𐫁𐫀𐫗 (šwbʾn /⁠šubān⁠/), ultimately from Old Persian *fšupāna-.

Noun

چوبان • (çoban) (definite accusative چوبانی (çobanı), plural چوبانلر (çobanlar))

1. shepherd, pastor

   Synonym: راعی (raʼi)

2. herdsman, herder

   Synonym: راعی (raʼi)

3. (figuratively) boor, peasant, lout, churl

   Synonym: هودوك (hödük)

Derived terms

• صیغیر چوبانی (sığır çobanı, “cowherd”)
• چوبان آطه‌سی (çoban adası, “Kos, a Greek island”)
• چوبان آلدادان (çoban aldadan, “nightjar”, literally “shepherd deceiving”)
• چوبان اعتقادی (çoban iʼtikâdı, “faith firm and simple”)
• چوبان ایكنه‌سی (çoban iğnesi, “geranium”)
• چوبان دكنكی (çoban değeneği, “crook; knotgrass”)
• چوبان دودوكی (çoban düdüğü, “hazelwort”)
• چوبان سوزكجی (çoban süzgeci, “bedstraw”)
• چوبان طاشی (çoban taşı, “name of a large diamond belonging to the Sultans”, literally “shepherd's stone”)
• چوبان طراغی (çoban tarağı, “teasel”)
• چوبان طغارجغی (çoban dağarcığı, “pennycress”)
• چوبان قالقیدان (çoban kalkıdan, “caltrop”)
• چوبان مرهمی (çoban merhemi, “a preparation of soap and turpentine”)
• چوبان پوسكولی (çoban püskülü, “holly”)
• چوبان چانطه‌سی (çoban çantası, “shepherd's purse”)
• چوبان یلدزی (çoban yıldızı, “Venus”)
• چوبانلق (çobanlık, “booriness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çoban
• → Albanian: çoban
• → Armenian: չոբան (čʻoban)
• → Bulgarian: чоба́нин (čobánin)
• → Greek: τσοπάνης (tsopánis)
• → Romanian: cioban
• → Russian: чаба́н (čabán) (usually from other Turkic languages)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чо̀бан

  Latin script: čòban

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “چوبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 602
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çoban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1019
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “چوبان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 190a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “چوبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 476
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pastor”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “چوبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1672
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “çoban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چوبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 733

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoː.ˈbaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰoː.bɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰoː.bɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰoː.bɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰʊː.bɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰuː.bɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɵ.bɔn]

• Rhymes: -aːn

Readings
Classical reading?	čōbān
Dari reading?	čōbān
Iranian reading?	čubân
Tajik reading?	čübon

Noun

چوبان • (čōbān / čubân) (Tajik spelling чӯбон)

1. alternative form of چوپان (čōpān / čupân)