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beyin

beyin

Azeri

beyin

Noun

beyin (definite accusative beyni, plural beyinlər)

  1. (anatomy) brain (organ)

Declension


Turkish

beyin

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بین (beyn, brain, mind, understanding, intellect), vulgar of بینی (beyni), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (beyni, brain), from Proto-Turkic *bejŋi,[1]*béñī (brain).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɛˈjin]
  • Hyphenation: be‧yin

Noun

beyin (definite accusative beyni, plural beyinler)

  1. (anatomy) brain (organ)
  2. mind; brains, intelligence

Declension

Derived terms

Adjective

beyin (not comparable)

  1. (not comparable) cerebral, encephalic

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *bejŋi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 348