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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَا بَيْنَ (mā bayna, literally “what is in-between”).
Preposition
مابین • (mabeyin) (definite accusative مابینی (mabeyini), plural مابینلر (mabeyinler))
- space or place, opening, interval, room, between two or among many things
- Synonyms: آرا (ara), آرالق (aralık), بوشلق (boşluk), خلال (hilal), مسافه (mesafe)
- 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
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 4224
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَا بَيْنَ (mā bayna, literally “what is in-between”).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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māḇayn
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Dari reading?
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mābayn
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Iranian reading?
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mâbeyn
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Tajik reading?
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mobayn
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Noun
مابین • (mābayn / mâbeyn)
- interstice (space between two things)
- (Dari) center, middle
- Synonyms: وسط (wasat / vasat), میان (miyān / miyân)
- (Dari) inside (of)
Preposition
مابین • (mābayn-i / mâbeyn-e) (with ezafe, often also with در)
- between
- (Dari) inside, within
مابین یخچال- mābayn-i yaxčāl
- inside the fridge
- (Dari) among
Further reading
- Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “مابین”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 172, 311
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مابین”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مابین”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
- “مابین”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afğānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023