دوربین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian (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 script: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна (archaic)

Latin script: dùrbīn, durbisna (archaic)

Adjective

دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)

clairvoyant

Persian

Alternative forms

دربین (dorbin) (dialectal)

Etymology

From (dur) +‎ (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): /duːɾ.ˈbiːn/

(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)

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)

(Iran) camera
― durbin-e maxfi ― secret camera
(Dari) telescope
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 (dūr-bīn).

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”)