نوبت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوبت (nawbat), from Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba).

Noun

نوبت • (nevbet, nöbet)

1. guard, patrol, the occupation of keeping watch

   Near-synonyms: باقمق (bakmak), حفظ (hifz), پاس (pas), قراغول (karağul), قوللق (kulluk), هركش (herküş), طلایه (tılaye), طبیعه (tebiʼe), محافظه (muhafaza)

2. watchman, guard, patrol, man or mandem keeping watch

   Near-synonyms: یاساقجی (yasakçı), قواس (kavvas), بكجی (bekçi), پاسبان (pasban), خاصه‌عسكری (hasa-ʼaskeri), عساكرخاصه (ʼasakir-i-hasa)

3. an orchestra or concert planned for a specific date or on a specific schedule
4. shift, turn, rotational change in position or the practice of rotation itself
5. a fit of fever, recurring symptom
6. (rare) time as in three times and four times

   Synonyms: گز (gez), دفعه (defʾa), كره (kerre)

Derived terms

• نوبتجی (nevbetçi, nöbetçi, “watchman”)
• نوبتلمك (nevbetlemek, nöbetlemek, “to take turns”)
• نوبتخانه (nevbethane, nöbethane, “sentry box”)
• نوبتداش (nevbetdaş, nöbetdaş, “whose turn it is”)
• نوبتلو (nevbetli, nöbetli, “rotational, alternating”)
• نوبتگه, نوبتگاه (nevbetgah, nöbetgah, “watchpost”)

Descendants

• Turkish: nöbet
• → Armenian: նէօպէթ (nēōpētʻ)
• → Georgian: ნობეთი (nobeti) — Chveneburi
• → Laz: ნობეთი (nobeti)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نوبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1290a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “Excubiae”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 498
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “نوبت”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 921

Persian

Alternative forms

• نوبه (nowbe) (obsolete)

Etymology

From Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba). Displaced native پستا (pastâ).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [naw.bat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.bät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.bät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [näw.bät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [näw.bät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [now.ˈbæt̪̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [näw.bät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	nawbat
Dari reading?	nawbat
Iranian reading?	nowbat
Tajik reading?	navbat

Noun

Dari	نوبت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	навбат

نوبت • (nowbat) (plural نوبت‌ها (nowbat-hâ))

1. turn

   نوبت شماست.

   Nowbat-e šomâst.

   It's your turn.

2. shift
3. round
4. period
5. intermittence

Derived terms

• نوبتی (nowbati)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic script: нөвбә, нөвбәт

  Latin script: növbə, növbət

• → Bengali: নওবৎ (noōbot)
• → Old Hindi:
  • Hindi: नौबत (naubat)
  • Urdu: نوبت (naubat)
• → Kazakh:

  Arabic script: ناۋبەت

  Cyrillic script: нәубет (näubet)

• → Ottoman Turkish: نوبت (nevbet, nöbet)
  • Turkish: nöbet
  • → Armenian: նէօպէթ (nēōpētʻ)
  • → Georgian: ნობეთი (nobeti) — Chveneburi
  • → Laz: ნობეთი (nobeti)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਨੌਬਤ (naubat)

  Shahmukhi script: نَوْبَت (naubat)

• → Russian: наба́т (nabát)
• → Sindhi: نوبت
• → Tatar: нәүбәт (näwbät)
• → Uzbek:

  Cyrillic script: навбат (navbat)

  Latin script: navbat

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوبت (nawbat), from Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nɔː.bət̪/

Noun

نوبت • (naubat) f (Hindi spelling नौबत)

1. condition, circumstances, period (favourable for something to happen); a chance

   ہماری جیت کی نوبت اب آ گئی ہے۔

   hamārī jīt kī naubat ab ā gaī hai.

   The conditions favourable for our victory have arrived.

2. (music) instruments played at auspicious times