مابین

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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))

  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 (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023
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