مابین

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word مابین. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word مابین, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say مابین in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word مابین you have here. The definition of the word مابین will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofمابین, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

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))

  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

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 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
Classical reading? māḇayn
Dari reading? mābayn
Iranian reading? mâbeyn
Tajik reading? mobayn

Noun

مابین • (mābayn／mâbeyn)

  1. interstice (space between two things)
  2. (Dari) center, middle
    Synonyms: وسط (wasat／vasat), میان (miyān／miyân)
  3. (Dari) inside (of)

Preposition

مابین • (mābayn-i／mâbeyn-e) (with ezafe, often also with در)

  1. between
  2. (Dari) inside, within
    مابین یخچال
    mābayn-i yaxčāl
    inside the fridge
  3. (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
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia