# نوبت
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوبت (nawbat), from Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba).

### Noun

نوبت • (nevbet, nöbet)
* guard, patrol, the occupation of keeping watch
    Near-synonyms: باقمق (bakmak), حفظ (hifz), پاس (pas), قراغول (karağul), قوللق (kulluk), هركش (herküş), طلایه (tılaye), طبیعه (tebiʼe), محافظه (muhafaza)
* watchman, guard, patrol, man or mandem keeping watch
    Near-synonyms: یاساقجی (yasakçı), قواس (kavvas), بكجی (bekçi), پاسبان (pasban), خاصه‌عسكری (hasa-ʼaskeri), عساكرخاصه (ʼasakir-i-hasa)
* an orchestra or concert planned for a specific date or on a specific schedule
* shift, turn, rotational change in position or the practice of rotation itself
* a fit of fever, recurring symptom
* (rare) time as in three times and four times
    Synonyms: گز (gez), دفعه (defʾa), كره (kerre)

#### Derived terms

* نوبتجی (nevbetçi, nöbetçi, “watchman”)
* نوبتلمك (nevbetlemek, nöbetlemek, “to take turns”)
* نوبتخانه (nevbethâne, nöbethâne, “sentry box”)
* نوبتداش (nevbetdaş, nöbetdaş, “whose turn it is”)
* نوبتلو (nevbetli, nöbetli, “rotational, alternating”)
* نوبتگه, نوبتگاه (nevbetgah, nöbetgah, “watchpost”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: nöbet
* → Armenian: նէօպէթ (nēōpētʻ)
* → Georgian: ნობეთი (nobeti) — Chveneburi
* → Laz: ნობეთი (nobeti)

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نوبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1290a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “Excubiae”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 498
* Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “نوبت”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 921

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* نوبه (nowbe) (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba). Displaced native پستا (pastâ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [naw.bat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näw.bät̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [näw.bät̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [näw.bät̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [näw.bät̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [now.ˈbæt̪̪ʰ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [näw.bät̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

نوبت • (nowbat) (plural نوبت‌ها (nowbat-hâ))
* turn
    نوبت شماست.
       Nowbat-e šomâst.It's your turn.
* shift
* round
* period
* intermittence

#### Derived terms

* نوبتی (nowbati)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani:
    Cyrillic script: нөвбә, нөвбәт
    Latin script: növbə, növbət
* → Bengali: নওবৎ (noōbot)
* → Old Hindi:
    Hindi: नौबत (naubat)
    Urdu: نوبت (naubat)
* → Kazakh:
    Arabic script: ناۋبەت
    Cyrillic script: нәубет (näubet)
* → Ottoman Turkish: نوبت (nevbet, nöbet)
** Turkish: nöbet
** → Armenian: նէօպէթ (nēōpētʻ)
** → Georgian: ნობეთი (nobeti) — Chveneburi
** → Laz: ნობეთი (nobeti)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਨੌਬਤ (naubat)
    Shahmukhi script: نَوْبَت (naubat)
* → Russian: наба́т (nabát)
* → Sindhi: نوبت
* → Tatar: нәүбәт (näwbät)
* → Uzbek:
    Cyrillic script: навбат (navbat)
    Latin script: navbat

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نوبت (nawbat), from Arabic نَوْبَة (nawba).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /nɔː.bət̪/

### Noun

نوبت • (naubat) f (Hindi spelling नौबत)
* condition, circumstances, period (favourable for something to happen); a chance
    ہماری جیت کی نوبت اب آ گئی ہے۔hamārī jīt kī naubat ab ā gaī hai.The conditions favourable for our victory have arrived.
* (music) instruments played at auspicious times