چوبان

See also: چوپان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• شبان (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان (şoban, şuban, şüben)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چوپان (čupân).

Noun

چوبان • (çoban)

1. shepherd

Descendants

• Turkish: çoban
• → Albanian: çoban
• → Bulgarian: чоба̀нин (čobànin)
• → Greek: τσοπάνης (tsopánis)
• → Romanian: cioban
• → Russian: чаба́н (čabán) (usually from other Turkic languages)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чо̀бан

  Latin script: čòban

References

• 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^[1], Vienna, column 1672
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2767
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شوبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2873

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Persian

Noun

چوبان • (čubân)

1. Alternative spelling of چوپان