دوربین
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian دوربین (durbin).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dyɾˈbin], [dyɾˈbyn]
Noun
دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
- prospective, perspective glass, monocular, spyglass, telescope
Descendants
- Turkish: dürbün
- → Albanian: dyrbi, dylbi
- → Macedonian: дурбин (durbin)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна
- Latin: dùrbīn, durbisna
Adjective
دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
- clairvoyant
Persian
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دوربین
Etymology
From دور (dur) + بین (bin). In the sense of a prospective glass, calque of Latin tēlescopum, tēlescopium, transmitted after this device was invented in Europe in the early 17th century by travellers to the East, which however makes it likely that this sense developed in the Ottoman Turkish vocabulary first.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /duːɾˈbiːn/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /duːɾˈbiːn/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /duːɾˈbiːn/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /duɾˈbin/
Adjective
دوربین • (durbin)
- farsighted, prospective (also figurative)
Noun
دوربین • (durbin)
- spyglass, perspective glass; binoculars
- camera
Descendants
- Tajik: дурбин (durbin)
- → Arabic: دَرْبِين (darbīn), دَرْبِيل (darbīl, “telescope; binoculars”) (dialects)
- → Swahili: darubini (“telescope; binoculars”)
- → Armenian: դուրբին (durbin), դիրբին (dirbin), դուլբին (dulbin), դուլբուն (dulbun), տո̈ւլպո̈ւն (tülpün), դո̈ւրբո̈ւն (dürbün), տելբի (telbi), դիլպի (dilpi), դուլդուլ (duldul), տուլտոզ (tultoz), դօ̈լբինդ (dölbind)
- → Azerbaijani: durbin
- → Bengali: দূরবীন (dūrôbīn)
- → Georgian: დურბინდი (durbindi)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: दूरबीन (dūrbīn)
- Urdu: دوربین (dūrbīn)
- → Kazakh: дүрбі (dürbı)
- → Ottoman Turkish: دوربین (dürbin, dürbün)
- Turkish: dürbün
- → Albanian: dyrbi, dylbi
- → Macedonian: дурбин (durbin)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна
- Latin: dùrbīn, durbisna
- → Uzbek: durbin
References
- Bläsing, Uwe (1997), “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), issue 2, § 28. durde (Tunceli) ‘Fernglas’, pages 93–96
Urdu
Etymology
From Persian دوربین.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪uːɾ.biːn/
Noun
دوربین • (dūr-bīn) f (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
- binoculars, telescope
Adjective
دوربین • (dūr-bīn) (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
- farsighted, far-seeing
Synonyms
- دور اندیش (dūr-andesh)
Related terms
- دور بینی (dūr-bīnī, “foresight, telescopic”)