beynelmilel
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بینالملل (beyn-elmilel), from Arabic بَيْنَ ٱلْمِلَلِ (bayna l-milali, “between the nations”) with the word مِلّة (milla) in the uncommon or dated sense “people, nation”, which is current in Turkish millet. Compare Persian بینالمللی (beyna-lmelali). In Arabic itself, the word دُوَلِيّ (duwaliyy) has become standardised for “international”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beynelmilel
- (archaic) international
- Synonyms: uluslararası, milletlerarası, enternasyonal
Further reading
[edit]- “beynelmilel”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beynelmilel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 574