ابیل
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic أَبِيل (ʔabīl, “old man; monk”), from Classical Syriac ܐܒܝܠܐ (ʾăḇīlā, “mourner; penitent, monk”), whence also Armenian աբեղա (abeġa).
Noun
[edit]ابیل • (ebil)
- (Christianity) monk, a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service
Related terms
[edit]- ایبل (eybel, “Christian priest or monk”)
Further reading
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Monachus”, 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[1], Vienna, column 1073
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 16