پیشوا

From Persian پیشوا‎ (pêšvâ).

پیشوا • (pişüva, pişiva)

1. one who is a model, someone whom others follow or imitate, guide, exemplar, initiator, instructor

   Synonyms: امام‎ (imam), مرشد‎ (mürşid), قلاغوز‎ (kılağuz, kılavuz, kulağuz, kulavuz)

2. superior, boss, leader, chief, head

   Synonyms: رییس‎ (reis), باش‎ (baş), قلاغوز‎ (kılağuz, kılavuz, kulağuz, kulavuz), مدیر‎ (müdir, müdür)

• Turkish: pişüva, pişiva (archaic)

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyšʾwpʾd /pēšōbāy/, “leader, vanguard”).

پیشوا • (pêšvâ)

1. one who is a model, someone whom others follow or imitate, guide, exemplar, initiator, instructor

   Synonyms: امام‎ (emâm), مرشد‎ (moršed), رهبر‎ (rahbar), دلیل‎ (dalil)

2. superior, boss, leader, chief, head

   Synonyms: لیدر‎ (lider), مدیر‎ (modir)

• → Azerbaijani: pişva
• → Bengali: পেশওয়া (peśōẇa)
• → Gujarati: પેશવા (peśvā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पेशवा (peśvā)

  Urdu: پیشوا‎ (peśvā)

  • → English: peshwa
• → Kannada: ಪೇಷ್ವೆ (pēṣve)
• → Malayalam: പേഷ്വ (pēṣva)
• → Marathi: पेशवा (peśvā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیشوا‎ (pişüva, pişiva)
  • Turkish: pişüva, pişiva (archaic)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਪੇਸ਼ਵਾ (peśvā)

  Shahmukhi script: پیشوا‎ (peśoā)

• → Tamil: பேஷ்வா (pēṣvā)
• → Telugu: పీష్వా (pīṣvā)

پیشوا • (pišvâ)

1. A city, the county seat of Pishva County, Iran.

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “پیشوا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “پیشوا”, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 399b
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pēšōbāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 68