Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Persian پیشوا (pišvâ).

Noun

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پیشوا (pişüva, pişiva)

  1. 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)
  2. superior, boss, leader, chief, head
    Synonyms: رییس (reis), باش (baş), قلاغوز (kılağuz, kılavuz, kulağuz, kulavuz), مدیر (müdir, müdür)

Descendants

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  • Turkish: pişüva, pişiva (archaic)

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyšʾwpʾd /⁠pēšōbāy⁠/, leader, vanguard).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? pēšwā
Dari reading? pēšwā
Iranian reading? pišvâ
Tajik reading? pešvo

Noun

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Dari پیشوا
Iranian Persian
Tajik пешво

پیشوا (pišvâ)

  1. one who is a model, someone whom others follow or imitate, guide, exemplar, initiator, instructor
    Synonyms: امام (emâm), مرشد (moršed), رهبر (rahbar), دلیل (dalil)
  2. superior, boss, leader, chief, head
    Synonyms: لیدر (lider), مدیر (modir)

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Proper noun

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پیشوا (pišvâ)

  1. A city, the county seat of Pishva County, Iran.

References

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  • 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[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 399b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pēšōbāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68