دربند
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دربند (darband, “mountain or road pass, narrows”), which is from در (dar, “door”) + بند (band, “band, knot, tie”) (i.e. literally: "barred gate").
Adverb
دربند • (derbent, dervent)
- (geography) narrows, pass; a narrow place where one may cross when travelling
- Synonym: گچید (geçit)
- derbend, a small fort or outpost at a remote, usually mountainous location
Usage notes
The pronunciation derbent is more formal, whereas dervent was used in colloquial speech and thence passed to most Balkan languages, according to Georgiev mostly through Greek δερβένι (dervéni) to account for the loss of the final -t in Bulgarian дерве́н (dervén), Macedonian дервен (derven), Serbo-Croatian дѐрвен.
Derived terms
- دربندجی (derbentçi, derventçi, “derbendci, irregular soldier or custom-house officer stationed at a pass”)
Descendants
- Turkish: derbent (noun) (obsolete)
- ⇒ Turkish: derbentçi (noun) (historical)
- → Greek: δερβένι n (dervéni)
- ⇒ Greek: δερβενάκι n (dervenáki) (rare), δερβέναγας m (dervénagas)
- → Bulgarian: дерве́н m (dervén), дерве́нт m (dervént) (obsolete)
- ⇒ Bulgarian: дервентджия m (derventdžija) (historical)
- → Macedonian: дервен m (derven)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)
- Cyrillic: дѐрвен
- Latin: dèrven
- → English: derbend (noun) (dated)
- → Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)
- Cyrillic: дѐрбент
- Latin: dèrbent
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دربند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 894
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دربند”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 567
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “derbent”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), “дервен”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 344