ابیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَبِيل (ʔabīl, “old man; monk”), from Classical Syriac ܐܒܝܠܐ (ʾăḇīlā, “mourner; penitent, monk”), whence also Armenian աբեղա (abeġa).

Noun

ابیل • (ebil)

1. (Christianity) monk, a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service

   Synonyms: راهب (rahib), كشیش (keşiş)

Related terms

• ایبل (eybel, “Christian priest or monk”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Monachus”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1073
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 16