ناورد

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian ناورد (nāward).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

نَاوَرْد (nāwardm (obsolete)

  1. the race of horses in battle or competition
  2. battle, skirmish

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Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Persian ناورد (nâward, battle, skirmish).

Noun[edit]

ناورد (naverd)

  1. battle, fight, combat, a military action in which two or more armies are engaged
    Synonyms: اوغراش (oğraş), پرخاش (perhaş), جنك (cenk), دوگش (döğüş), صاواش (savaş)

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: naverd

Further reading[edit]

Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Variates with نبرد (nabard), which see.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? nāward
Dari reading? nāward
Iranian reading? nâvard
Tajik reading? novard

Noun[edit]

ناورد (nâward)

  1. a course in field, race
  2. battle, skirmish
    • a. 1854, میرزا حبیب قاآنی Mīrzā Ḥabīb Qāānī, “Das Frühlingsgedicht des persischen Dichters Mirsa Habib Kaani”, in Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, transl., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[9], volume 9, number 1, published 1855, page 604 l. 39:
      بیک ناورد ورزم وحمله وچالش زهم درّی
      دو صد پیل ودو صد شیر ودو صد ببر ودو صد اژدر
      With one skirmish, melee, onset and tackle you will whiff
      Two hundred elephants, two hundred lions, two hundred tigers, and two hundred dragons.

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ناوَرد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[10] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1290b