جانباز

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جانباز (jânbâz).

Noun

جَانْبَازْ (cānbāz)

1. (literally) one who plays with their life/soul
2. hero, valiant, brave one

   Synonym: یكد (yigid)

   • 1360, Mevlâna Ibn Alâ, Dânişmendnâme:

     ملك دانشمند غازی، اول دین جانبازی، میدانه كیروب كافره مقابل اولدی

     mälik dānişmänd ġāzī, ol dīn cānbāzı, mäydāna girüp kāfirä muqābil oldı

     Malik Danişmand Gazi, that brave man of faith, entered the square and stood up against the kuffar

3. someone who sells alive animals

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: canbaz
• Gagauz: cambaz
• Ottoman Turkish: جانباز (canbaz, cambaz)
  • Turkish: cambaz
  • → Albanian: xhambaz
  • → Armenian: ջամբազ (ǰambaz), ճամպազ (čampaz)
  • → Macedonian: џамбаз (džambaz)

Further reading

• “canbaz”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977, page 164

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جانباز (cānbāz), from Persian جانباز (jânbâz, “one who plays with his life, hero”).

Noun

جانباز • (canbaz or cambaz) (definite accusative جانبازی (canbazı, cambazı), plural جانبازلر (canbazlar, cambazlar))

1. acrobat, tumbler, an athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination
2. horsedealer, rough rider, a dealer in horses or a person who breaks in and trains them

   Synonym: آت جانبازی (at cambazı)

3. (figurative, derogatory) sly fox, rascal, trickster, rogue, a sly, crafty, or dishonest person

Derived terms

• آت جانبازی (at cambazı, “horse dealer; jockey”)
• آیاقلق جانبازی (ayaklık cambazı, “stiltwalker”)
• ایپ جانبازی (ip cambazı, “tightrope walker”)
• جانبازخانه (cambazhâne, “circus”)
• جانبازلق (cambazlık, “acrobatics”)
• جانبازی (cambazî, “acrobatics”)

Descendants

• Turkish: cambaz
• → Albanian: xhambaz
• → Armenian: ջամբազ (ǰambaz), ճամպազ (čampaz)
• → Macedonian: џамбаз (džambaz)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جانباز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 520
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cambaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 746
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جانباز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 178a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جانباز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 431
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Funambulus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 628
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جانباز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1566
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cambaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جانباز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 638

Persian

Etymology

From جان (jân) +‎ ـباز (-bâz).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑːn.bɑːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑːm.bɑːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑːm.bɑːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɑːm.bɑːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔːm.bɔːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɒːm.bɒːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɔm.bɔz]

Readings
Classical reading?	jānbāz
Dari reading?	jānbāz
Iranian reading?	jânbâz
Tajik reading?	jonboz

Noun

جانباز • (jânbâz) (plural جانبازان (jânbâzân) or جانبازها (jânbâz-hâ))

1. (literally) one who would offer up their life
2. disabled war veteran

Descendants

• → Arabic: جُمْبَاز (jumbāz)
• → Georgian: ჯამბაზი (ǯambazi)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: جانباز (cānbāz)
  • Azerbaijani: canbaz
  • Gagauz: cambaz
  • Ottoman Turkish: جانباز (canbaz, cambaz)
    • Turkish: cambaz
    • → Albanian: xhambaz
    • → Armenian: ջամբազ (ǰambaz), ճամպազ (čampaz)
    • → Macedonian: џамбаз (džambaz)
• → Urdu: جانباز (jānbāz)
• → Swahili: jambazi