# چوبان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* شبان (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان (şoban, şuban, şüben)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چوپان (čupân, “shepherd”), from Middle Persian 𐫢𐫇𐫁𐫀𐫗 (šwbʾn /⁠šubān⁠/), ultimately from Old Persian *fšupāna-.

### Noun

چوبان • (çoban) (definite accusative چوبانی (çobanı), plural چوبانلر (çobanlar))
* shepherd, pastor, a person who tends, feeds and guards a flock of sheep
    Synonym: راعی (raʼi)
* herdsman, herder, a person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep
    Synonym: راعی (raʼi)
* (figuratively) boor, peasant, lout, churl, an uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person
    Synonym: هودوك (hödük)

#### Derived terms

* صیغیر چوبانی (sığır çobanı, “cowherd”)
* چوبان آطه‌سی (çoban adası, “Kos, a Greek island”)
* چوبان آلدادان (çoban aldadan, “nightjar”, literally “shepherd deceiving”)
* چوبان اعتقادی (çoban iʼtikâdı, “faith firm and simple”)
* چوبان ایكنه‌سی (çoban iğnesi, “geranium”)
* چوبان دكنكی (çoban değeneği, “crook; knotgrass”)
* چوبان دودوكی (çoban düdüğü, “hazelwort”)
* چوبان سوزكجی (çoban süzgeci, “bedstraw”)
* چوبان طاشی (çoban taşı, “name of a large diamond belonging to the Sultans”, literally “shepherd's stone”)
* چوبان طراغی (çoban tarağı, “teasel”)
* چوبان طغارجغی (çoban dağarcığı, “pennycress”)
* چوبان قاریسی (çoban karısı, “shepherdess”)
* چوبان قالقیدان (çoban kalkıdan, “caltrop”)
* چوبان قیزی (çoban kızı, “shepherdess”)
* چوبان مرهمی (çoban merhemi, “a preparation of soap and turpentine”)
* چوبان پوسكولی (çoban püskülü, “holly”)
* چوبان چانطه‌سی (çoban çantası, “shepherd's purse”)
* چوبان یلدزی (çoban yıldızı, “Venus”)
* چوبان یولی (çoban yolu, “sheep-track”)
* چوبانلق (çobanlık, “booriness”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çoban
* → Albanian: çoban
* → Armenian: չոբան (čʻoban)
* → Bulgarian: чоба́нин (čobánin)
* → Greek: τσοπάνης (tsopánis)
* → Romanian: cioban
* → Russian: чаба́н (čabán) (usually from other Turkic languages)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: чо̀бан
    Latin script: čòban

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “چوبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 602
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çoban”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1019
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوبان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 190a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چوبان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 476
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pastor”, 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 1249
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1672
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çoban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چوبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 733

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃuː.βɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰuː.bɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰu.bɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰuː.bɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰu.bɔn]

### Noun

چوبان • (čubân)
* Alternative spelling of چوپان