دوربین
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دوربین
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
Descendants
Adjective
دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
Persian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From دور (dur) + بین (bin). In the sense of a prospective glass, calque of Latin tēlescopum, tēlescopium, transmitted after this device was invented in Europe in the early 17th century by travellers to the East, which however makes it likely that this sense developed in the Ottoman Turkish vocabulary first.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dūrbīn |
| Dari reading? | dūrbīn |
| Iranian reading? | durbin |
| Tajik reading? | durbin |
Adjective
دوربین • (durbin)
- farsighted, prospective (also figurative)
- c. 1260, Amīr Khusraw, “Ghazal 1483”, in دیوان امیرخسرو [The Divān of Amīr Khusraw]:
- فتادم به چاه زنخ گرچه من
چو خسرو دلی دوربین داشتم- fitādam ba čāh-i zanax garči man
čū xusraw dilē dūrbīn dāštam - I fell in the dimple of her chin, even though I
Had a heart which saw far like Khusraw.
- fitādam ba čāh-i zanax garči man
Noun
| Dari | کَمِرَه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | دوربین |
| Tajik | камера |
دوربین • (durbin)
- (Iran) camera
- دوربین مخفی ― durbin-e maxfi ― secret camera
- (Dari) telescope
- spyglass, perspective glass; binoculars
Descendants
- Tajik: дурбин (durbin)
- → Arabic: دَرْبِين (darbīn), دَرْبِيل (darbīl, “telescope; binoculars”) (dialects)
- → Swahili: darubini (“telescope; binoculars”)
- → Armenian: դուրբին (durbin), դիրբին (dirbin), դուլբին (dulbin), դուլբուն (dulbun), տո̈ւլպո̈ւն (tülpün), դո̈ւրբո̈ւն (dürbün), տելբի (telbi), դիլպի (dilpi), դուլդուլ (duldul), տուլտոզ (tultoz), դօ̈լբինդ (dölbind)
- → Azerbaijani: durbin
- → Bengali: দূরবিন (durbin)
- → Georgian: დურბინდი (durbindi)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: дүрбі (dürbı)
- → Ottoman Turkish: دوربین (dürbin, dürbün)
- → Uyghur: دۇربۇن (durbun)
- → Uzbek: durbin
References
- Bläsing, Uwe (1997) “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), number 2, § 28. durde (Tunceli) ‘Fernglas’, pages 93–96
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دوربین (dūr-bīn).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪uːɾ.biːn/
Noun
دوربین • (dūr-bīn) f (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
Adjective
دوربین • (dūr-bīn) (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
Synonyms
- دور اندیش (dūr-andesh)
Related terms
- دور بینی (dūr-bīnī, “foresight, telescopic”)