# پهلوان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پهلوان (pahlevân, “hero, paladin; wrestler”). Doublet of بالابان (balaban, “large, huge”).

### Noun

پهلوان • (pehlevân or pehlivân) (definite accusative پهلوانی (pehlevânı, pehlivânı), plural پهلوانلر (pehlevânlar, pehlivânlar))
* pehlivan, a Turkish wrestler in the sport of yağlı güreş or oil wrestling
    Synonym: كورشجی (güreşci)
* hero, paladin, champion, somebody who possesses great courage
    Synonyms: آلپ (alp), قوچاق (koçak), قهرمان (kahraman), یكیت (yığıt)
* athlete, sportsperson, anyone who actively participates in physical sports

#### Derived terms

* پهلوان تكیه‌سی (pehlevân tekyesi, “wrestling academy”)
* پهلوان صلاطه‌سی (pehlevân salatası, “oil and vinegar, as a condiment”)
* پهلوان كوی (pehlivân köy, “Pehlivanköy, a district in Turkey”)
* پهلوان یاقیسی (pehlevân yakısı, “blister of Spanish flies”)
* پهلوانانه (pehlevânane, pehlivânane, “special to a wrestler”)
* پهلوانلق (pehlevânlık, pehlivânlık, “quality or act of a wrestler”)
* پهلوانی (pehlevâni, pehlivâni, “special to a wrestler”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: pehlivan
* → Albanian: pehlivan
* → Armenian: փէյլիվան (pʻēylivan), փա̈յլիվան (pʻäylivan), փէհլիվան (pʻēhlivan)
* → Bulgarian: пехливан (pehlivan)
* → English: pehlivan
* → Macedonian: пеливан (pelivan)
* → Greek: πεχλιβάνης (pechlivánis)
* → Romanian: pehlivan
* → Serbo-Croatian: pehlìvān / пехлѝва̄н

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پهلوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 421
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pehlivan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3810
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پهلوان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 137a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پهلوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 329
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Athleta”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 96
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پهلوان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 960
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pehlivan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پهلوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 461

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* پهلوون (pahlevun) (eye-dialect)

### Etymology

Ultimately from the name of the Parthians. Compare پهلو (pahlav), پهلوی (pahlavi).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pah.la.ˈwɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰäɦ.lä.wɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰäɦ.lä.wɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰɑː.lä.wɑ́ːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰɔː.lä.wɔ́ːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰæɦ.le.vɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰäɦ.lä.vɔ́n]

### Noun

پهلوان • (pahlevân) (plural پهلوان‌ها (pahlevân-hâ) or پهلوانان (pahlevânân))
* strong athletic man
* hero, paladin, champion
    Synonym: قهرمان (qahramân)
* (archaic) army commander
* wrestler
    Synonym: کشتی‌گیر (košti-gir)

#### Derived terms

* پهلوانی (pahlavâni)
* پهلوانانه (pahlavânâne)
* جهان‌پهلوان (jahân-pahlavân)
* پهلوان‌باشی (pahlavân-bâši)
* پهلوان‌پنبه (pahlavân-panbe)

#### Related terms

* پهلو (pahlow)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: بَهْلَوَان (bahlawān)
* → Bengali: পালোয়ান (palowan)
* → Armenian: փահլեւան (pʻahlewan)
* → Azerbaijani: pəhləvan
* → Georgian: ფალავანი (palavani)
* → Gujarati: પહલવાન (pahalvān)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: पहलवान (pahalvān)
    Urdu: پہلوان (pahlvan)
* → Kazakh: палуан (paluan), балуан (baluan)
* → Malay: pahlawan
** → Indonesian: pahlawan
* → Ottoman Turkish: پهلوان (pehlevân, pehlivân)
** Turkish: pehlivan
** → Albanian: pehlivan
** → Armenian: փէյլիվան (pʻēylivan), փա̈յլիվան (pʻäylivan), փէհլիվան (pʻēhlivan)
** → Bulgarian: пехливан (pehlivan)
** → English: pehlivan
** → Macedonian: пеливан (pelivan)
** → Greek: πεχλιβάνης (pechlivánis)
** → Romanian: pehlivan
** → Serbo-Croatian: pehlìvān / пехлѝва̄н
* → Uyghur: پەھلىۋان (pehliwan)
* → Uzbek: pahlavon

### Proper noun

پهلوان • (pahlavân)
* a surname, Pahlavan