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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 414b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مابین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 4422
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651