پهلوان

See also: بهلوان

Persian

Alternative forms

پهلوون (pahlevun) (eye-dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pah.la.ˈwɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.lä.wɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.lä.wɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.lä.wɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɦ.le.vɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɦ.lä.vɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pahlawān
Dari reading^?	pahlawān
Iranian reading^?	pahlevân
Tajik reading^?	pahlavon

Noun


Iranian Persian	پهلوان
Dari	پهلوان
Tajik	паҳлавон

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
- → Bulgarian: пехливан (pehlivan)
- → Macedonian: пеливан (pelivan)
- → Greek: πεχλιβάνης (pechlivánis)
- → Romanian: pehlivan
- → Serbo-Croatian: pehlìvān / пехлѝва̄н
→ Uzbek: pahlavon

Proper noun

پهلوان • (pahlavân)

a surname. Pahlavan

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