چوپان

• شبان (šubān / šobân, šabān / šabân), شوبان (šōbān / šubân}), چوبان (čōbān / čubân), چپان (čapān / čapân)
• چوپون (čupun) (colloquial, Tehran)

From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫇𐫁𐫀𐫗 (šwbʾn /⁠šubān⁠/), from Old Persian *fšupāna-, composed of [script needed] (fšu-, “sheep”) (compare Old Armenian շպետ (špet), Sanskrit पशुपन् (paśupan)) and [script needed] (pāna-, “protector”). Cognate with Pashto شپون (špun), Baluchi شپانک (šipánk), Northern Kurdish şivan, Zazaki şıwane, Northern Luri شڤا (şeva), Bactrian χοβανο (khobano).

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چوپان • (čōpān / čupân) (Tajik spelling чӯпон)

1. shepherd

   Synonym: پاده‌بان (pāda-bān / pâde-bân)

• → Azerbaijani: çoban
• → Chagatai: چوپان (čwpān /⁠cōpān⁠/)
  • Uyghur: چۇپان (chupan)
  • Uzbek: choʻpon
• → Crimean Tatar: çoban
• → Gujarati: ચૂબાન (cūbān), ચૂપાન (cūpān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चूपान (cūpān)

  Urdu: چوپان (cūpān)

• → Ishkashimi: چوپان (cōpān)
• → Kazakh: шопан (şopan)
• → Northern Luri: چووپۆ (çupø)
• → Kermanic: čöppūn (Abyanehi), čoppūn (Jowshaqani), čöwpōn, čūppū, čūppōn, čūppō (Abuzeydabadi), čūpūn (Qohrudi)
• → Munji: چوپان (čūpān), چوپون (čūpōn)
• → Ormuri: چوپان (čopån) (Logar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چوبان (çoban) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkmen: çopan
• → Sanglechi: چپان (čəpān)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979), “շպետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Horn, Paul (1893), “šubān”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 171

Borrowed from Classical Persian چوپَان (čōpān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔː.pɑːn/, /t͡ʃoː.pɑːn/, /t͡ʃuː.pɑːn/

چوپان • (caupān) m (Hindi spelling चूपान)

1. shepherd; cowherd; herder
2. caretaker

• چَوپانِی (caupānī, “herding; shepherding”)
• چَوپان پیشَہ (caupān-pēša, “shepherd's profession”)
• چَوپان گَری (caupān-garī, “herd-guarding”)

• “چوپان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چوپان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.