قواد

Occupational noun from the verb قَادَ (qāda, “to lead, to pander”).

• IPA^(key): /qaw.waːd/

قَوَّاد • (qawwād) m

1. pimp, procurer
2. broker
3. guide, conductor, guard
4. nose

• Andalusian Arabic: قَوَّاد (qawwād)
  • → Catalan: alcavot
  • → Spanish: alcahuete
  • → Portuguese: alcaguete, caguete
• → Middle Armenian: ղաւատ (ġawat)
• → Old Armenian: կաւատ (kawat)
  • → Armenian: կավատ (kavat) (learned)
• → Persian: قواد (qavvâd)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قواد
  • Turkish: kavat

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قواد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Inflected form.

• IPA^(key): /quw.waːd/

قُوَّاد • (quwwād) m pl

1. plural of قَائِد (qāʔid)

From Arabic قَوَّاد (qawwād).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaw.waːd/

قواد • (gawwād) m (plural قَوَّادين (gawwādīn))

1. pimp, procurer

From Arabic.

قواد • (qavvâd)

1. pimp, procurer