کوتوال
Persian
Etymology
From Indo-Aryan (compare Sanskrit कोटपाल/कोट्टपाल (koṭapāla/koṭṭapāla), Urdu کٹھوال, Hindi कोतवाल (kotvāl, “police chief”)) or Turkic (compare Chagatai کوتاوال / کوتاول).
Attested since the Ghaznavid period.
Noun
کوتوال • (kutvâl)
- (archaic) castellan
Synonyms
- دژبان (dežbân)
- دزدار (dezdâr)
References
- Mo'in, Mohammad (1972), “کوتوال”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “کوتوال”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press