پیشوا
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian پیشوا (pēšvā).
Noun
پیشوا • (pişüva, pişiva)
- one who is a model, someone whom others follow or imitate, guide, exemplar, initiator, instructor
- Synonyms: امام (imam), مرشد (mürşid), قلاغوز (kılağuz, kılavuz, kulağuz, kulavuz)
- superior, boss, leader, chief, head
- Synonyms: رییس (reis), باش (baş), قلاغوز (kılağuz, kılavuz, kulağuz, kulavuz), مدیر (müdir, müdür)
Descendants
- Turkish: pişüva, pişiva (archaic)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyšʾwpʾd /pēšōbāy/, “leader, vanguard”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /peːʃwɑː/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /peːʃwɑː/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /piːʃvɒː/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /peʃvɔ/
Noun
پیشوا • (pēšvā)
- one who is a model, someone whom others follow or imitate, guide, exemplar, initiator, instructor
- Synonyms: امام (emâm), مرشد (moršed), رهبر (rahbar), دلیل (dalil)
- superior, boss, leader, chief, head
- Synonyms: لیدر (lider), مدیر (modir)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: pişva
- → Bengali: পেশওয়া (peśôẇa)
- → Gujarati: પેશવા (peśvā)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: पेशवा (peśvā)
- Urdu: پیشوا (peśvā)
- → English: peshwa
- → Kannada: ಪೇಷ್ವೆ (pēṣve)
- → Malayalam: പേഷ്വ (pēṣva)
- → Marathi: पेशवा (peśvā)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پیشوا (pişüva, pişiva)
- Turkish: pişüva, pişiva (archaic)
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਪੇਸ਼ਵਾ (peśvā)
- Shahmukhi: پیشوا (peśoā)
- → Tamil: பேஷ்வா (pēṣvā)
- → Telugu: పీష్వా (pīṣvā)
Proper noun
پیشوا • (pišvâ)
- A city, the county seat of Pishva County, Iran.
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیشوا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1855), “پیشوا”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 399b
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pēšōbāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68