بینی

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bẹńi (“brain”); Kazakh ми (mi, “brain”), Kyrgyz мээ (mee, “brain”), Tatar ми (mi, “brain”), Turkmen beýni, Uyghur مىڭە (mi'nge, “brain”), Uzbek miya (“brain”) and Yakut мэйии (meyii, “brain”).

بینی • (bäyni)

1. brain
   • 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:

     غافل باشك اغریسن بيني بلور

     ġāfil başuŋ aġrısın bäyni bilür

     [only a] brain knows the ache of a clueless head

   • 1330, Âşık Paşa, Garibnâme:

     نفسك آلتنچی اوی بینی درر
     انديشه انده انك ديني درر
     چونكه بینی عقل اويدر فكرى وار
     نفس دخى واردى اكا اولدى يار

     näfsüŋ altınçı evi bäyni durur
     ändīşä anda anuŋ dīni durur
     çünki bäyni ʼäql evidür fikri vār
     näfs daḫı vārıdı aŋa oldı yār

     the sixth house of the self is the brain
     in it thought is its religion
     because the brain is the house of the mind, it has ideas
     the self too was there, it became a helper to it

• Azerbaijani: beyin
  • → Armenian: բեյին (beyin), բեին (bein), բեյն (beyn)
• Gagauz: beyni
• Ottoman Turkish: بینی (beyni), بین (beyn)
  • Turkish: beyin

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “beyni”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 112
• “beyni”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beyin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Classical Persian بینی (bīnī)

بینی • (bīnī)

1. nose

   Synonym: بورون (burun)

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 121

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بینی (bäyni), from Proto-Turkic *bẹńi (“brain”); cognate with Azerbaijani beyin, Kazakh ми (mi, “brain”), Kyrgyz мээ (mee, “brain”), Tatar ми (mi, “brain”), Turkmen beýni, Uyghur مىڭە (mi'nge, “brain”), Uzbek miya (“brain”) and Yakut мэйии (meyii, “brain”).

• بین (beyn)

بینی • (beyni)

1. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: دماغ (demağ), مخ (muh), مغز (mağz)

2. (by extension) mind, understanding, intellect

• Turkish: beyin

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beyin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 573
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بینی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 140b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerebrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بینی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1013
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beyin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 426

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish بینی (bīnī), from Persian بینی (bini, “nose”).

بینی • (bini)

1. nose, a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils

   Synonyms: انف (enf), بورون (burun)

2. tip, the extreme end of something, especially when pointed

   Synonyms: انف (enf), بورون (burun)

3. headland, cape, promontory, any projecting piece of land

   Synonyms: انف (enf), بورون (burun)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bini3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 615
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nasus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[7], Vienna, column 1117
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بینی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1013
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 426

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭩𐭭𐭩𐭪 (wēnīg), traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”) and related to بین (bīn / bin, form of دیدن (dīdan / didan)).

However, Gershevitch rejects this etymology, transcribing the Middle Persian term as wīnīg instead, and deriving it from Proto-Iranian *wí (“apart”) + an Iranian formation descended from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). The prefix is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wí, from Proto-Indo-European *wí (“apart”).^[1]

Connection with Northern Kurdish bêvil (“nose”) is uncertain.

بینی • (bīnī / bini) (Tajik spelling бинӣ)

1. (formal in Iran; normal elsewhere) nose

   Synonym: دماغ (dimāġ / damâġ)

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: بینی (bīnī)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بینی (bini)
• → Gujarati: બીની (bīnī)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

بینی • (bīnī / bini) (Tajik spelling бинӣ)

1. second-person simple present of دیدن (dīdan / didan)