موبد

See also: مؤبد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian موبد (mowbed, mubed, mobad).

Noun

موبد • (mubed) (plural موبدان)

  1. mobad, a Zoroastrian cleric
Descendants
  • Turkish: mubid

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic مُؤَبَّد (muʔabbad, everlasting).

Adjective

موبد • (muʿebbed)

  1. perpetual, eternal, everlasting, permanent
    Synonyms: ابدی (ebedî), دایم (daim), صوڭسز (soñsız)
Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From [Book Pahlavi needed] (mgwpt' /⁠mowbed⁠/) with the same meaning, from Proto-Iranian *magu-pati- (literally head of the Magi). For the constituents see مغ (moğ) and بد (-bed). Doublet of مغ‌بد (moğ-bed). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մոգպետ (mogpet), մովպետան մովպետ (movpetan movpet), մուբիտան մուբիտ (mubitan mubit), Classical Syriac ܡܘܒܕ (mawbed), ܡܘܗܦܛܐ (mawhəp̄āṭā).

Noun

موبد • (mowbed, mubed)

  1. mobad, a Zoroastrian priest

Synonyms

  • مغ‌بد (moğ-bed)

Further reading

  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 121–122
  • Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 122
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