نصيبين

See also: نصیبین

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܢܨܝܒܝܢ (nəṣībīn), an Old Aramaic plural formation dating to the 2nd millennium BCE from ܢܨܝܒ (nəṣīb, “erected, planted”, adjective) from the root ܢ-ܨ-ܒ (n-ṣ-b) cognate to the Arabic ن ص ب (n-ṣ-b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.sˤaj.biːn/, /na.sˤiː.biːn/

Proper noun

نُصَيْبِين or نَصِيبِين • (nuṣaybīn or naṣībīn) f

1. Nusaybin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)

Declension

Declension of noun نُصَيْبِين (nuṣaybīn)‎; نَصِيبِين (naṣībīn)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	نُصَيْبِين‎; نَصِيبِين nuṣaybīn‎; naṣībīn	—
Nominative	—	نُصَيْبِينُ‎; نَصِيبِينُ nuṣaybīnu‎; naṣībīnu	—
Accusative	—	نُصَيْبِينَ‎; نَصِيبِينَ nuṣaybīna‎; naṣībīna	—
Genitive	—	نُصَيْبِينَ‎; نَصِيبِينَ nuṣaybīna‎; naṣībīna	—

Further reading

• a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎^[1], volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 787:
• Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 94
• Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2024, Province of Diyarbekir: Photo gallery [with map]
• Wild, Stefan (1973) Libanesische Ortsnamen (Beiruter Texte und Studien; 9)‎^[2], Würzburg · Bayrūt: Ergon-Verlag · al-Furat, published 2008, →ISBN, page 96