چوپان

From Middle Iranian, from Old Persian *fšupāna-, composed of [script needed] (fšu-, “sheep”) (compare Old Armenian շպետ (špet) and [script needed] (pāna-, “protector”). Cognate with Pashto [script needed] (špūn), Baluchi [script needed] (šipānk), Northern Kurdish şivan, Zazaki şiwane, Bactrian χοβανο (xobano).

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چوپان • (čupân)

1. shepherd

• → Azerbaijani: çoban
• → Armenian: չոբան (čʿoban)
• → Crimean Tatar: çoban
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: चूपान (čūpān)

  Urdu: چوپان‎ (čūpān)

• → Ottoman Turkish: چوبان‎ (çoban), شبان‎ (şoban, şuban, şüben), شوبان‎ (şoban, şuban, şüben)
  • Turkish: çoban
  • → Albanian: çoban
  • → Bulgarian: чоба̀нин (čobànin)
  • → Greek: τσοπάνης (tsopánis)
  • → Romanian: cioban
  • → Russian: чаба́н (čabán) (usually from other Turkic languages)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: чо̀бан

    Latin: čòban

• → Turkmen: çopan
• → Uzbek: choʻpon

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “շպետ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, 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

From Persian چوپان‎ (čupân).

چوپان • (čūpān) m (Hindi spelling चूपान)

1. shepherd
2. cowherd