مابین

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

• 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 4224
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مابین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1651

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَا بَيْنَ (mā bayna, literally “what is in-between”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈβajn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.bǽjn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.bǽjn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.bǽjn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.bǽjn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.ˈbejn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.bǽjn]

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