کوتوال

Persian

Etymology

From Indo-Aryan (compare Sanskrit कोटपाल/कोट्टपाल (koṭapāla/koṭṭapāla), Urdu کٹھوال (kṭhvāl), Hindi कोतवाल (kotvāl, “police chief”)) or Turkic (compare Chagatai کوتاوال / کوتاول).

Attested since the Ghaznavid period.

Noun

کوتوال • (kutvâl)

1. (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