قهرمان

See also: قہرمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قهرمان (qahramân, “hero”).

Noun

قهرمان • (kahraman)

1. hero, someone who possess great bravery

   Synonyms: شاهباز (şahbaz), قوچ (koç), قوچاق (koçak), یگیت (yiğit)

Derived terms

• قهرمانانه (kahramanane, “heroic”)
• قهرمانلق (kahramanlık, “heroism”)
• قهرمانی (kahramani, “heroic”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kahraman

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kahraman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2337
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قهرمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 995
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Heros”, 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 693
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قهرمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2760
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kahraman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهرمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1504

Persian

Etymology

From original کهرمان (kahramân), from a dialectal form of Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (kʾlplmʾn /⁠kārframān⁠/, “overseer, manager”), from Old Median *karhramāna-. The form with initial q- by association with Arabic قَهْر (qahr, “conquest, subjugation, violence, wrath”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qah.ɾa.ˈmɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäɦ.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäɦ.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.ɾä.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.ɾä.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæɦ.ɹæ.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäɦ.ɾä.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	qahramān
Dari reading?	qahramān
Iranian reading?	ğahramân
Tajik reading?	qahramon

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Noun

Dari	قهرمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қаҳрамон

قهرمان • (qahramân) (plural قهرمانان (qahramânân) or قهرمان‌ها (qahramân-hâ))

1. champion; hero

   قهرمان افسانه‌ای ― qahramân-e afsâne'i ― legendary hero

2. (sports) champion

   قهرمان شنا ― qahramân-e šenâ ― swimming champion

3. (fiction) hero, protagonist

   قهرمان فیلم اکشن ― qahramân-e film-e akšen ― action film hero

Derived terms

• قهرمانانه (qahramânâne)
• قهرمانی (qahramâni)
• لیگ قهرمانان (lig-e qahramânân)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qəhrəman
• → Chagatai: قهرمان
  • Uyghur: قەھرىمان (qehriman)
  • Uzbek: qahramon
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़हरमान (qaharmān)

  Urdu: قہرمان (qahrmān)

• → Georgian: ყარამანი (q̇aramani)
• → Kazakh: қаһарман (qaharman)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قهرمان
  • Turkish: kahraman
• → Turkmen: gahryman

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قهرمان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim