چوپان

• چوپون (čupun) (colloquial, Tehran)

From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫇𐫁𐫀𐫗 (šwbʾn /⁠šubān⁠/), from Old Persian *fšupāna-, composed of [script needed] (fšu-, “sheep”) (compare Old Armenian շպետ (špet), Sanskrit पशुपन् (paśupan)) and [script needed] (pāna-, “protector”). Cognate with Pashto شپون (špūn), Baluchi شپانک (šipánk), Northern Kurdish şivan, Zazaki şıwane, Bactrian χοβανο (khobano).

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چوپان • (čupân)

1. shepherd

   Synonyms: شبان (šobân), پاده‌بان (pâdebân)

• → Azerbaijani: çoban
• → Crimean Tatar: çoban
• → Gujarati: ચૂબાન (cūbān), ચૂપાન (cūpān)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चूपान (cūpān)

  Urdu: چوپان (cūpān)

• → Kazakh: шопан (şopan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چوبان (çoban), شبان (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان (şoban, şuban, şüben)
  • 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

• → Turkmen: çopan
• → Uzbek: choʻpon

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շպետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Horn, Paul (1893) “šubān”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 171

Borrowed from Classical Persian چوپَان (čōpān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔː.pɑːn/, /t͡ʃoː.pɑːn/, /t͡ʃuː.pɑːn/

چوپان • (caupān) m (Hindi spelling चूपान)

1. shepherd; cowherd; herder
2. caretaker

• چَوپانِی (caupānī, “herding; shepherding”)
• چَوپان پیشَہ (caupān-pēša, “shepherd's profession”)
• چَوپان گَری (caupān-garī, “herd-guarding”)

• “چوپان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “چوپان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.