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پهلوان · بَهْلَوَان — acrobat, tightrope walker

Persian → ArabicCertainnoun · People · common

This one went the other way: from Persian into Arabic.

Arabic

بَهْلَوَان
bahlawān

/bahlawaːn/

In Arabic

acrobat, tightrope walker

Persian

پهلوان
pahlavān

/pæhlævɒn/

In Persian

acrobat, tightrope walker

Persian says today: بندباز bandbāz

Note. Persian pahlavān is a hero or champion wrestler; in Arabic the word came to mean a circus acrobat.

Spelling. Arabic has no p and writes it as b (pahlavān → bahlawān).

Sources: Asbaghi · Dehkhoda · Wehr