شاهباز
Ottoman Turkish
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شاهباز
Alternative forms
- شهباز (şahbaz)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “eagle”).
Noun
شاهباز • (şahbaz)
- gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
- Synonym: آق طوغان (ak doğan)
- (figuratively) champion, hero, a valiant man
- Synonyms: قوچ (koç), قهرمان (kahraman), یگیت (yiğit)
Descendants
- Turkish: şahbaz
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “şahbaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4414
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شاهباز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 717
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Falco”, 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, Vienna, column 546
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “شاهباز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2760
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şahbaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شاهباز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1112