پهلوان

See also: بهلوان

Ottoman Turkish

پهلوانلر

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پهلوان (pahlevân, “hero, paladin; wrestler”). Doublet of بالابان (balaban, “large, huge”).

Noun

پهلوان • (pehlevân or pehlivân) (definite accusative پهلوانی (pehlevânı, pehlivânı), plural پهلوانلر (pehlevânlar, pehlivânlar))

1. pehlivan, a Turkish wrestler in the sport of yağlı güreş or oil wrestling

   Synonym: كورشجی (güreşci)

2. hero, paladin, champion, somebody who possesses great courage

   Synonyms: آلپ (alp), قوچاق (koçak), قهرمان (kahraman), یكیت (yığıt)

3. athlete, sportsperson, anyone who actively participates in physical sports

Derived terms

• پهلوان تكیه‌سی (pehlevân tekyesi, “wrestling academy”)
• پهلوان صلاطه‌سی (pehlevân salatası, “oil and vinegar, as a condiment”)
• پهلوان كوی (pehlivân köy, “Pehlivanköy, a district in Turkey”)
• پهلوان یاقیسی (pehlevân yakısı, “blister of Spanish flies”)
• پهلوانانه (pehlevânane, pehlivânane, “special to a wrestler”)
• پهلوانلق (pehlevânlık, pehlivânlık, “quality or act of a wrestler”)
• پهلوانی (pehlevâni, pehlivâni, “special to a wrestler”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pehlivan
• → Albanian: pehlivan
• → Armenian: փէյլիվան (pʻēylivan), փա̈յլիվան (pʻäylivan), փէհլիվան (pʻēhlivan)
• → Bulgarian: пехливан (pehlivan)
• → English: pehlivan
• → Macedonian: пеливан (pelivan)
• → Greek: πεχλιβάνης (pechlivánis)
• → Romanian: pehlivan
• → Serbo-Croatian: pehlìvān / пехлѝва̄н

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پهلوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 421
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pehlivan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3810
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پهلوان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 137a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پهلوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 329
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Athleta”, 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 96
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پهلوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 960
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pehlivan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پهلوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 461

Persian

Alternative forms

• پهلوون (pahlevun) (eye-dialect)

Etymology

Ultimately from the name of the Parthians. Compare پهلو (pahlav), پهلوی (pahlavi).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pah.la.ˈwɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.lä.wɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.lä.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.lä.wɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.lä.wɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɦ.le.vɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.lä.vɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	pahlawān
Dari reading?	pahlawān
Iranian reading?	pahlevân
Tajik reading?	pahlavon

Noun

Dari	پهلوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	паҳлавон

پهلوان • (pahlevân) (plural پهلوان‌ها (pahlevân-hâ) or پهلوانان (pahlevânân))

1. strong athletic man
2. hero, paladin, champion

   Synonym: قهرمان (qahramân)

3. (archaic) army commander
4. wrestler

   Synonym: کشتی‌گیر (košti-gir)

Derived terms

• پهلوانی (pahlavâni)
• پهلوانانه (pahlavânâne)
• جهان‌پهلوان (jahân-pahlavân)
• پهلوان‌باشی (pahlavân-bâši)
• پهلوان‌پنبه (pahlavân-panbe)

Related terms

• پهلو (pahlow)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بَهْلَوَان (bahlawān)
• → Bengali: পালোয়ান (palowan)
• → Armenian: փահլեւան (pʻahlewan)
• → Azerbaijani: pəhləvan
• → Georgian: ფალავანი (palavani)
• → Gujarati: પહલવાન (pahalvān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पहलवान (pahalvān)

  Urdu: پہلوان (pahlvan)

• → Kazakh: палуан (paluan), балуан (baluan)
• → Malay: pahlawan
  • → Indonesian: pahlawan
• → Ottoman Turkish: پهلوان (pehlevân, pehlivân)
  • Turkish: pehlivan
  • → Albanian: pehlivan
  • → Armenian: փէյլիվան (pʻēylivan), փա̈յլիվան (pʻäylivan), փէհլիվան (pʻēhlivan)
  • → Bulgarian: пехливан (pehlivan)
  • → English: pehlivan
  • → Macedonian: пеливан (pelivan)
  • → Greek: πεχλιβάνης (pechlivánis)
  • → Romanian: pehlivan
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pehlìvān / пехлѝва̄н
• → Uyghur: پەھلىۋان (pehliwan)
• → Uzbek: pahlavon

Proper noun

پهلوان • (pahlavân)

1. a surname. Pahlavan