بینی

See also: بيني

Ottoman Turkish
بینی

Etymology 1

Inherited 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”).

Alternative forms

Noun

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
Descendants
  • Turkish: beyin
  • → Armenian: բեյին (beyin), բեյն (beyn)

Further reading
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian بینی (bini, “nose”).

Noun

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)

Further reading
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  • 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, 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, Vienna, column 1013
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 426

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭩𐭭𐭩𐭪 (wēnīg), traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”) and related to بین (bīn, “present stem form of دیدن (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 *wi (“apart”).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? bīnī
Dari reading? bīnī
Iranian reading? bini
Tajik reading? binī

Noun
Dari بینی
Iranian Persian
Tajik бинӣ

بینی • (bini) (formal in Iran, normal elsewhere)

  1. nose

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Gujarati: બીની (bīnī)

References
  1. Korn, Agnes (2005) “review of: Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst 2004: Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian [Corpus Fontum Manichaeorum: Dictionary of Manichaean Texts III: Texts from Central Asia and China 1]. Turnhout: Brepols”, in Orientalia Suecana 54‎, Turnhout: Brepols, archived from the original on 2023-12-27, pages 206-212
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