pehlivan
English
Noun
pehlivan (plural pehlivans)
- A Turkish wrestler in the sport yağlı güreş (Turkish oil wrestling).
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پهلوان (pehlivan), from Persian پهلوان (pahlavân).
Pronunciation
Noun
pehlìvān m (Cyrillic spelling пехлѝва̄н)
- (regional, Bosnia) tightrope walker, ropewalker
- (regional, Bosnia) acrobat
- Synonym: akrobat
- (regional, Bosnia) wrestler
- Synonym: hrvač
- (regional, Bosnia) exhibitionist (one who attempts to draw attention to himself or herself by his or her behavior)
- Synonym: egzibicionist
Declension
Declension of pehlivan
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pehlivan | pehlivani |
genitive | pehlivana | pehlivana |
dative | pehlivanu | pehlivanima |
accusative | pehlivana | pehlivane |
vocative | pehlivane | pehlivani |
locative | pehlivanu | pehlivanima |
instrumental | pehlivanom | pehlivanima |
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish پهلوان (pehlivan), from Persian پهلوان (pahlavân)
Noun
pehlivan (definite accusative pehlivanı, plural pehlivanlar)
- A yağlı güreş wrestler
Declension
Derived terms
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Athletes
- en:People
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Persian
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Regional Serbo-Croatian
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- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- tr:Athletes
- tr:Wrestling