سپاهی
Appearance
See also: سپاہی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “soldier, cavalryman”). By surface analysis, سپاه (sipah, “army”) + ـی.
Noun
[edit]سپاهی • (sipahi) (plural سپاهیان or سپاهیلر (sipahiler))
- sipahi, a feudal cavalryman in the Ottoman Turkish army
- yeoman, a small freeholder who farms his own land
Derived terms
[edit]- تیمار سپاهیسی (tımar sipahisi, “yeoman of a small fief”)
- زعامت سپاهیسی (zeʼamet sipahisi, “yeoman of a large fief”)
- سپاهی اوجاغی (sipahi ocağı, “special corps of cavalry”)
- سپاهی اوغلانی (sipahi oğlanı, “special corps of cavalry”)
- سپاهیانه (sipahiyane, “soldierly”)
- سپاهیلك (sipahilik, “military service”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: sipahi
- → English: sipahi
- → French: spahi
- → Romanian: spahiu
- → Serbo-Croatian: sìpāh/сѝпа̄х, spàhija/спа̀хија
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sipahi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4258
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سپاهی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 263a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپاهی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Militaris”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1048
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپاهی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2534
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sipahi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپاهی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From سپاه (sipāh / sepâh, “army”) + ـی (-ī / -i, noun forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [si.pɑː.ˈhiː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [se.pʰɒː.ɦíː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [si.pʰɔ.ɦí]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | sipāhī |
Dari reading? | sipāhī |
Iranian reading? | sepâhi |
Tajik reading? | sipohi |
Noun
[edit]سپاهی • (sipāhī / sepâhi) (plural سپاهیان)
- (mostly in historical contexts) soldier
- cavalryman
- sepoy
- IRGC member, pasdaran
Descendants
[edit]Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Classical Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms suffixed with ـی
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- ota:Military
- ota:People
- Persian terms suffixed with ـی
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- fa:Occupations