Arbab

{{Short description|Persian title and word for "boss" or "master"}}

{{for|the village in Iran|Arbab, Iran}}Arbab ({{langx|fa|ارباب}}) is a Persian word that means "boss", "master" and "landlord" or "one endowed with a special quality". The term is equivalent to the Armenian title tanuter.{{Cite book |last=Bournoutian |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb9aDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Tanuter%22+-wikipedia+armenian&pg=PT107 |title=Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914 |date=2018-05-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-06260-2 |pages=62 |language=en}} It was a title used by tribal leaders in Middle East and South Asia.