پاسبان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

پاسوان (pasvan), پازواند (pazvand), پازونت (pazvant), پازوند (pazvand)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (pāsbān).

Noun

پاسبان • (pasban)

sentinel, guard, watchman, person who keeps watch
Synonym: نوبتجی (nevbetçi, nöbetçi)

Descendants

Turkish: pazvant
→ Albanian: pazvan
→ Aromanian: pãzvan, pãzvandu
→ Bulgarian: пазва́н (pazván), пазва́нт (pazvánt)
→ Greek: πασβάντης (pasvántis), παζβάντης (pazvántis)
→ Macedonian: пазван (pazvan), пазвант m (pazvant), пазвантин m (pazvantin)
→ Romanian: pazvan, pazvant
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: пазван

Latin script: pazvan

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pʾspʾn' /⁠pāsbān⁠/, “guard, watcher”), which is akin to Old Armenian պահապան (pahapan), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /paːs.ˈbaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːs.bɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑːs.bɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔːs.bɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːs.bɒ́ːn], [pʰɒː.se.bɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔs.bɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pāsbān
Dari reading^?	pāsbān
Iranian reading^?	pâsbân, pâsebân
Tajik reading^?	posbon

Noun

پاسبان • (pāsbān / pâsbân) (plural پاسبانان (pāsbānān / pâsbânân), or پاسبان‌ها (pāsbān-hā / pâsbân-hâ), Tajik spelling посбон)

Synonyms

پاسدار (pâsdâr)
کشیکچی (kešikči)
قراول (qarâvol)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: पासबान (pāsbān), पासबाँ (pāsbā̃) — poetic

Urdu: پاسْبان (pāsbān), پاسْباں (pāsbā̃) — poetic
→ Middle Armenian: փասպան (pʻaspan)
→ Ottoman Turkish: پاسبان (pasban), پاسوان (pasvan), پازواند (pazvand), پازونت (pazvant), پازوند (pazvand)
- Turkish: pazvant
- → Albanian: pazvan
- → Aromanian: pãzvan, pãzvandu
- → Bulgarian: пазва́н (pazván), пазва́нт (pazvánt)
- → Greek: πασβάντης (pasvántis), παζβάντης (pazvántis)
- → Macedonian: пазван (pazvan), пазвант m (pazvant), пазвантин m (pazvantin)
- → Romanian: pazvan, pazvant
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: пазван
  Latin script: pazvan

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پاسبان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Urdu

Alternative forms

پاسْباں (pāsbā̃) — poetic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (pāsbān)

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑːs.bɑːn/

Noun

پاسْبان • (pāsbān) m (Hindi spelling पासबान)

guard, watchman, sentinel
(rare) shepherd

Declension

Declension of **پاسبان**
	singular	plural
direct	پاسْبان (pāsbān)	پاسْبان (pāsbān)
oblique	پاسْبان (pāsbān)	پاسْبانوں (pāsbānõ)
vocative	پاسْبان (pāsbān)	پاسْبانو (pāsbāno)