Etymograph

English

pasdaran

Pasdaran comes from Persian پاسدار ‘guard, sentinel, watchman’, from داشتن ‘to have’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Persianc. 900–presentداشتن‘to have’
  3. Persian, derivedc. 900–presentپاسدار‘guard, sentinel, watchman’
  4. Persian, derivedc. 900–presentپاسدارانplural of پاسدار
  5. Englishtodaypasdaran

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂-‘to protect, to ward’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Persianc. 900–presentداشتن‘to have’
  3. Persian, derivedc. 900–presentپاسدار‘guard, sentinel, watchman’
  4. Persian, derivedc. 900–presentپاسدارانplural of پاسدار
  5. Englishtodaypasdaran

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’

food, father, company, pain, feed, pope, pattern, foster, fur, apparent, companion, pastor, papa, penetration, patriot, patron, fodder, fad, perpetrator, paternal, paternity, pasture, ayr, accompaniment, forage, padre, patrimony, patrician, perpetrate, pater, père, panini, pav, compere, pantaloons, pannier, 59 more

Today it means

noun A Revolutionary Guard (member of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- / pasdaran

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