ابیل
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic أَبِيل (ʔabīl, “old man; monk”), from Classical Syriac ܐܒܝܠܐ (ʾăḇīlā, “mourner; penitent, monk”), whence also Armenian աբեղա (abeġa).
Noun edit
ابیل • (ebil)
- (Christianity) monk, a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service
Related terms edit
- ایبل (eybel, “Christian priest or monk”)
Further reading edit
- 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, Vienna, column 1073
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ابیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 16