موبد

See also: مؤبد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian موبد (mowbed, mubed, “mobad”).

Noun

موبد • (mubed) (plural موبدان)

1. mobad, a Zoroastrian cleric

Descendants

• Turkish: mubid

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mubid”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3270
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موبد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1241
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موبد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 5006
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موبد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2023

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic مُؤَبَّد (muʔabbad, “everlasting”).

Adjective

موبد • (muʿebbed)

1. perpetual, eternal, everlasting, permanent

   Synonyms: ابدی (ebedî), دایم (daim), صوڭسز (soñsız)

Descendants

• Turkish: müebbet

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “müebbet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3350
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موبد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1241
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موبد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 5006
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موبد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2023

Persian

Alternative forms

• موبذ (mōbaz / mubaz) (archaic)
• مغبد (muğbad / moğbad), موغبد (mōğbad / muğbad)

Etymology

From [Book Pahlavi needed] (mgwpt' /⁠mowbed⁠/) with the same meaning, from Proto-Iranian *magu-pati- (literally “head of the Magi”). By surface analysis, مغ (moğ, “magus”) +‎ ـبد (-bad, “lord, master”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մոգպետ (mogpet), մովպետան մովպետ (movpetan movpet), մուբիտան մուբիտ (mubitan mubit), Classical Syriac ܡܘܒܕ (mawbed), ܡܘܗܦܛܐ (mawhəp̄āṭā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [moː.βað]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [moː.bäd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [moː.bäd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [moː.bäd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mʊː.bäd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [muː.bæd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɵ.bäd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	mōḇaḏ
Dari reading?	mōbad
Iranian reading?	mubad
Tajik reading?	mübad

Noun

موبد • (mubad)

1. mobad, a Zoroastrian priest

   Coordinate terms: هیربد (hirbod), دستور (dastur)

Further reading

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
• Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 121–122
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 122