Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian ناورد (nāward).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

نَاوَرْد (nāwardm (obsolete)

  1. the race of horses in battle or competition
  2. battle, skirmish

Declension edit

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Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian ناورد (nâward, battle, skirmish).

Noun edit

ناورد (naverd)

  1. battle, fight, combat, a military action in which two or more armies are engaged
    Synonyms: اوغراش (oğraş), پرخاش (perhaş), جنك (cenk), دوگش (döğüş), صاواش (savaş)

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: naverd

Further reading edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Variates with نبرد (nabard), which see.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? nāward
Dari reading? nāward
Iranian reading? nâvard
Tajik reading? novard

Noun edit

ناورد (nâward)

  1. a course in field, race
  2. battle, skirmish
    • a. 1854, میرزا حبیب قاآنی Mīrzā Ḥabīb Qāānī, “Das Frühlingsgedicht des persischen Dichters Mirsa Habib Kaani”, in Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, transl., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[9], volume 9, number 1, published 1855, page 604 l. 39:
      بیک ناورد ورزم وحمله وچالش زهم درّی
      دو صد پیل ودو صد شیر ودو صد ببر ودو صد اژدر
      With one skirmish, melee, onset and tackle you will whiff
      Two hundred elephants, two hundred lions, two hundred tigers, and two hundred dragons.

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Further reading edit

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ناوَرد”, 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[10] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1290b