دوربین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian دوربین (durbin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dyɾˈbin], [dyɾˈbyn]

Noun

دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)

1. prospective, perspective glass, monocular, spyglass, telescope

Descendants

• Turkish: dürbün
• → Albanian: dyrbi, dylbi
• → Macedonian: дурбин (durbin)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна (archaic)

  Latin script: dùrbīn, durbisna (archaic)

Adjective

دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)

1. clairvoyant

Persian

دوربین

Alternative forms

• دربین (dorbin) (dialectal)

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 17^th 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): /duːr.ˈbiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪uɾ.bín]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪uːɹ.bíːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪uɾ.bín]

Readings
Classical reading?	dūrbīn
Dari reading?	dūrbīn
Iranian reading?	durbin
Tajik reading?	durbin

• Audio (Iran):

  (file)

Adjective

دوربین • (durbin)

1. farsighted, prospective (also figurative)
   • c. 1260, Amīr Khusraw, “Ghazal 1483”, in دیوان امیرخسرو [The Divān of Amīr Khusraw]‎^[1]:

     فتادم به چاه زنخ گرچه من
     چو خسرو دلی دوربین داشتم

     fitādam ba čāh-i zanax garči man
     čū xusraw dilē dūrbīn dāštam

     I fell in the dimple of her chin, even though I
     Had a heart which saw far like [Kay] Khusraw.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Noun

Regional synonyms of "camera"

Dari	کَمِرَه
Iranian Persian	دوربین
Tajik	камера

دوربین • (durbin)

1. (Iran) camera

   دوربین مخفی ― durbin-e maxfi ― secret camera

2. (Dari) telescope
3. spyglass, perspective glass; binoculars

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: দূরবিন (durbin)
• → 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 script: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна (archaic)

    Latin script: dùrbīn, durbisna (archaic)

• → Uyghur: دۇربۇن (durbun)
• → Uzbek: durbin

References

• Bläsing, Uwe (1997), “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎^[2] (in German), number 2, § 28. durde (Tunceli) ‘Fernglas’, pages 93–96

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دوربین (dūr-bīn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪uːɾ.biːn/

Noun

دوربین • (dūr-bīn) f (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)

1. binoculars, telescope

Adjective

دوربین • (dūr-bīn) (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)

1. farsighted, far-seeing

Synonyms

• دور اندیش (dūr-andesh)

Related terms

• دور بینی (dūr-bīnī, “foresight, telescopic”)