کوتوال
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editکوتوال • (kutvâl)
References
edit- 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