shepherd

See also: Shepherd

English

Etymology

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep +‎ herd (“herder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛp.əɹd/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

shepherd (plural shepherds, feminine shepherdess)

1. A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
   • Template:RQ:SWymn ChpngBrgh

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

2. (figurative) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
   • 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms, 23, i,

     The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

3. (figurative) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
4. (poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover.

Synonyms

• (one who tends sheep): sheepherder

Coordinate terms

• shepherdess

Derived terms

• archshepherd
• Australian Shepherd
• Caucasian shepherd
• chief shepherd
• German Shepherd
• shepherd dog
• shepherdess
• shepherdish
• shepherdism
• shepherdless
• shepherdlike
• shepherdly
• shepherd moon
• shepherd satellite
• Shepherd's Bush
• shepherd's crook
• shepherdship
• shepherd's knot
• shepherd's needle
• shepherd's pie
• shepherd's pipe
• shepherd's pouch
• shepherd's purse
• undershepherd

 

Related terms

• bearherd
• cowherd
• goatherd
• gooseherd
• herd
• herder
• herding dog
• herd instinct
• herd's grass
• herdsman
• Herdsman (the constellation Boötes)
• herdswoman
• hogherd
• horseherd
• neatherd
• oxherd
• swanherd
• swineherd

 

Translations

a person who tends sheep

• Albanian: bari (sq) m
• Arabic: رَاعٍ m (rāʕin)

  Egyptian Arabic: راعي m (rāʕi)

  Moroccan Arabic: سارح m (særəḥ), سارْحة f (særḥa)

• Armenian: հովիվ (hy) (hoviv), չոբան (hy) (čʻoban)
• Aromanian: picurar m, uiar m
• Asturian: pastor m
• Azerbaijani: çoban (az)
• Bakhtiari: شوں (šõw)
• Basque: artzain (eu)
• Belarusian: пасту́х m (pastúx), па́стыр m (pástyr)
• Breton: bugul (br)
• Bulgarian: пасти́р (bg) m (pastír)
• Burmese: သိုးထိန်း (my) (sui:htin:)
• Catalan: pastor (ca) m
• Chichewa: mbusa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牧羊人 (zh) (mùyángrén), 羊倌 (zh) (yángguān), 牧民 (zh) (mùmín)

• Cornish: bugel
• Czech: pastýř m, pasák (cs) m
• Danish: fårehyrde c
• Dutch: herder (nl) m, schaapherder (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝafisto, ŝafistino
• Estonian: karjus, lambur
• Finnish: lammaspaimen (fi)
• French: berger (fr) m, bergère (fr) f, pasteur (fr) m, pâtre (fr) m, (diminutive) pastoureau (fr) m
• Friulian: piorâr m, fedâr m, pastôr m
• Georgian: მწყემსი (mc̣q̇emsi), მეცხვარე (mecxvare), ჩობანი (čobani)
• German: Hirt (de) m, Hirte (de) m, Schafhirt m, Schafhirte (de) m, Schafhirtin (de) f, Schäfer (de) m, Schäferin f
• Greek: βοσκός (el) m (voskós), τσοπάνης (el) m (tsopánis)

  Ancient: ποιμήν m (poimḗn)

• Hebrew: רוֹעֶה (he) m (ro'é)
• Hindi: गड़ेरिया (hi) m (gaṛeriyā), चूपान m (cūpān)
• Hungarian: pásztor (hu), juhász (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schefer m, Schefrin f
• Icelandic: hirðir (is) m, fjárhirðir (is) m, smali (is) m, smalamaður m
• Irish: aoire m, tréadaí m, buachaill caorach

  Middle Irish: áegaire m

  Old Irish: oegaire m

• Italian: pastore (it) m, pecoraio (it), pecoraro (it)
• Japanese: 羊飼い (ja) (ひつじかい, hitsujikai), 牧人 (ぼくじん, bokujin)
• Kazakh: малшы (malşy)
• Khmer: មេសបាល (km) (meisaʼbaal), មេសបាលី (meisaʼbaalii) (female)
• Korean: 목자 (ko) (mokja)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: малчы (ky) (malcı)
• Latin: pastor (la), ūpiliō m, pecorarius
• Latvian: gans m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ligurian: pastô m
• Lithuanian: piemuo m
• Luxembourgish: Schéifer m
• Macedonian: овчар m (ovčar)
• Malay: gembala, penggembala
• Maltese: ragħaj m
• Manx: bochil
• Mazanderani: کرد (kərd), گسن کرد (gəsan kərd)
• Middle English: sheepherde
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хоньчин (mn) (xonʹčin)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠨᠢᠴᠢᠨ (qoničin)

• Navajo: naʼniłkaadí
• Northern Sami: geahčči
• Norwegian: hyrde m
• Occitan: pastre (oc) m, oelhièr (oc) m
• Old English: sċēaphierde m
• Old Occitan: pastor
• Persian: چوپان (fa) (čupân), چوپون (čupun) (colloquial), شبان (fa) (šobân, šabân), شوان (fa) (šovân, šavân), چوبان (cubân)
• Plautdietsch: Hoad m
• Polish: pasterz (pl) m, pastuch (pl) m
• Portuguese: pastor (pt) m, pegureiro (pt) m
• Romanian: cioban (ro) m, oier (ro) m, păstor (ro) m, păcurar (ro) m
• Russian: пасту́х (ru) m (pastúx), пасту́шка (ru) f (pastúška), овча́р (ru) m (ovčár), (Central Asia, Caucasus) чаба́н (ru) m (čabán), па́стырь (ru) m (pástyrʹ) (dated, now means "pastor")
• Sanskrit: अविपाल (sa) m (avipāla)
• Sardinian: pastori, berbecarju, berbecàlgiu, berbegarzu
• Scottish Gaelic: buachaill-chaorach m, cìobair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̀стӣр m, чо̀бан m, о̀вча̄р m

  Roman: pàstīr (sh) m, čòban (sh) m, òvčār (sh) m

• Sicilian: pasturi m, picuraru m
• Slovak: pastier m
• Slovene: pastir (sl) m
• Spanish: pastor (es) m, ovejero (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒉺𒇻 (SIPA)
• Swahili: mchungaji (sw)
• Swedish: fåraherde (sv) c
• Tajik: чӯпон (tg) (čüpon)
• Thai: เมษบาล (mêet-sà-baan), คนเลี้ยง
• Turkish: çoban (tr)
• Turkmen: çopan
• Tuvan: хойжу (xoyju)
• Ukrainian: пасту́х m (pastúx), па́стир m (pástyr)
• Urdu: چوپان m (cūpān)
• Uyghur: چۇپان (chupan)
• Uzbek: cho'pon (uz)
• Venetian: pastor m, piegoràro m
• Vietnamese: người chăn cừu
• Volapük: (♂♀) jipigaledan (vo), (♂♀) galedanapul, (boy) galedanahipul, (girl) galedanajipul
• Walloon: bierdjî (wa) m, biedjresse (wa) f
• Welsh: bugail m
• Yiddish: פּאַסטעך m (pastekh), פּאַסטושקע f (pastushke)
• Zazaki: şıwane m, şıwani f

someone who watches over or guides

• Arabic: رَاعٍ m (rāʕin)
• Catalan: pastor (ca) m
• Danish: hyrde c
• Dutch: herder (nl) m
• Finnish: paimen (fi)
• German: Hirt (de) m, Hirte (de) m, Hirtin (de) f, Hüter (de) m, Hüterin (de) f
• Hebrew: רוֹעֶה (he) m (ro'é)
• Italian: pastore (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: пастир m (pastir)
• Maltese: ragħaj, mexxej
• Middle English: sheepherde
• Old English: hierde m
• Portuguese: pastor (pt) m
• Romanian: păstor (ro) m
• Russian: па́стырь (ru) m (pástyrʹ)
• Swedish: herde (sv) c
• Welsh: bugail m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} bača (sk) m, ^{(please verify)} valach m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

shepherd (third-person singular simple present shepherds, present participle shepherding, simple past and past participle shepherded)

1. To watch over; to guide
2. (Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

Translations

watch over; guide

• Finnish: paimentaa (fi), kaitsea (fi)
• Irish: aoirigh
• Latvian: ganīt (lv)
• Persian: مواظب بودن، راهنمایی کردن
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: conduzir (pt), guiar (pt)
• Romanian: păstori (ro), conduce (ro), îndruma (ro)
• Spanish: pastorear (es)

in Australian rules football

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}