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noun
A Revolutionary Guard (member of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Persian پاسداران, plural of پاسدار (“guard, sentinel, watchman”), from داشتن پاس 'to keep a watch', from Middle Persian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh2- and *dher-.
