نصيبين
See also: نصیبین
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From Classical Syriac ܢܨܝܒܝܢ (nəṣībīn), an Old Aramaic plural formation dating to the 2nd millennium BCE from ܢܨܝܒ (nəṣīb, “erected, planted”, adjective) from the root ܢ-ܨ-ܒ (n-ṣ-b) cognate to the Arabic ن ص ب (n-ṣ-b).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
نُصَيْبِين or نَصِيبِين • (nuṣaybīn or naṣībīn) f
- Nusaybin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)
Declension edit
Declension of noun نُصَيْبِين (nuṣaybīn); نَصِيبِين (naṣībīn)
Singular | basic singular diptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | — | نُصَيْبِين; نَصِيبِين nuṣaybīn; naṣībīn |
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Nominative | — | نُصَيْبِينُ; نَصِيبِينُ nuṣaybīnu; naṣībīnu |
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Accusative | — | نُصَيْبِينَ; نَصِيبِينَ nuṣaybīna; naṣībīna |
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Genitive | — | نُصَيْبِينَ; نَصِيبِينَ nuṣaybīna; naṣībīna |
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Further reading edit
- a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān][1], volume 4, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1869, page 787:
- Le Strange, Guy (1905) The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 94
- Houshamadyan – a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life, 2024, Province of Diyarbekir: Photo gallery [with map]
- Wild, Stefan (1973) Libanesische Ortsnamen (Beiruter Texte und Studien; 9)[2], Würzburg · Bayrūt: Ergon-Verlag · al-Furat, published 2008, →ISBN, page 96