drabant

== Swedish == === Etymology === Inherited from Late Old Swedish dravant, dravantare, from Middle Low German dravant. Cognate of German Trabant. Further origin disputed. Suggested cognates include Italian trabante, Czech drobit, Persian دربان (darbân). === Noun === drabant c (historical) bodyguard satellite, moon ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “drabant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) drabant in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)