چوبان

See also: چوپان

Ottoman Turkish

چوبان

Alternative forms

• شبان (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان (şoban, şuban, şüben)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چوپان (čupân, “shepherd”).

Noun

چوبان • (çoban)

1. shepherd, a person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock

   Synonym: راعی (raʿi)

2. (in general) herdsman, herder, a person who tends livestock
3. (figuratively) boor, peasant, an uncouth or crude person

   Synonym: هودوك (hödük)

Derived terms

• صیغیر چوبانی (sığır çobanı, “cowherd”)
• چوبان ایكنه‌سی (çoban iğnesi, “geranium”)
• چوبان دودوكی (çoban düdüğü, “hazelwort”)
• چوبان دگنكی (çoban değeneği, “crook; knotgrass”)
• چوبان سوزگجی (çoban süzgeci, “St John's wort”)
• چوبان طراغی (çoban tarağı, “teasel”)
• چوبان پوسكولی (çoban püskülü, “holly”)
• چوبان چانطه‌سی (çoban çantası, “shepherd's purse”)
• چوبانلق (çobanlık, “booriness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: çoban
• → Albanian: çoban
• → Armenian: չոբան (čʻoban)
• → Bulgarian: чоба́нин (čobánin)
• → Greek: τσοπάνης (tsopánis)
• → Romanian: cioban
• → Russian: чаба́н (čabán) (usually from other Turkic languages)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чо̀бан

  Latin script: čòban

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çoban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1019
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوبان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 190a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 476
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pastor”, 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 1249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1672
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çoban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 733

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃuː.βɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰu.bɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰuː.bɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰu.bɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	čūḇān
Dari reading?	čūbān
Iranian reading?	čubân
Tajik reading?	čubon

Noun

چوبان • (čubân)

1. Alternative spelling of چوپان