مابین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَا بَيْنَ (mā bayna, literally “what is in-between”).

Noun

مابین • (mabeyin)

  1. space or place, opening, interval, room, between two or among many things
    Synonyms: آرا (ara), آرالق (aralık), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مسافه (mesafe)
  2. room or suite of rooms in a Turkish house located between the haremlik and the selamlik

Derived terms
  • مابین اوطه‌سی (mabeyin odası, “room used by the ladies of the family”)
  • مابین قپوسی (mabeyin kapusu, “door leading to this room”)
  • مابینجی (mabeyinci, “chamberlain”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: mabeyin

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mabeyin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2996
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مابین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 414b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مابین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1088
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intervallum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 852
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مابین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4422
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651
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