نصيبين

See also: نصیبین

Arabic

Etymology

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 cognate to the Arabic ن ص ب (n ṣ b).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nu.sˤaj.biːn/, /na.sˤiː.biːn/

Proper noun

نُصَيْبِين or نَصِيبِين • (nuṣaybīn or naṣībīn) f

  1. Nusaybin (a city in today’s Mardin Province in Turkey)

Declension

Declension of noun نُصَيْبِين (nuṣaybīn)‎; نَصِيبِين (naṣībīn)
singular basic singular diptote
indefinite definite construct
informal — نُصَيْبِين‎; نَصِيبِين
nuṣaybīn‎; naṣībīn 		—
nominative — نُصَيْبِينُ‎; نَصِيبِينُ
nuṣaybīnu‎; naṣībīnu 		—
accusative — نُصَيْبِينَ‎; نَصِيبِينَ
nuṣaybīna‎; naṣībīna 		—
genitive — نُصَيْبِينَ‎; نَصِيبِينَ
nuṣaybīna‎; naṣībīna 		—

Further reading

  • 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, 2025, 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
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