pehlivan

pehlivan (plural pehlivans)

1. A Turkish wrestler in the sport of yağlı güreş (Turkish oil wrestling).

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پهلوان (pehlivan), from Persian پهلوان (pahlavân).

pehlivan m (plural pehlivani)

1. (dated) acrobat
2. crook, quack
3. joker

• pelìvān

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پهلوان (pehlivan), from Persian پهلوان (pahlavân).

• IPA^(key): /pexlǐʋaːn/
• Hyphenation: peh‧li‧van

pehlìvān m anim (Cyrillic spelling пехлѝва̄н) (regional, Bosnia)

1. tightrope walker, ropewalker
2. acrobat

   Synonym: akrobat

3. wrestler

   Synonym: hrvač

4. exhibitionist (one who attempts to draw attention to himself or herself by his or her behavior)

   Synonym: egzibicionist

• Isaković, Alija (1993) “pehlivan”, in Rječnik karakteristične leksike u bosanskome jeziku [Dictionary of characteristic words of the Bosnian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Wuppertal: Bambi, →ISBN, page 308

From Ottoman Turkish پهلوان (pehlivan), from Persian پهلوان (pahlavân).

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pehlivan (definite accusative pehlivanı, plural pehlivanlar)

1. A yağlı güreş wrestler

• başpehlivan