# دوربین
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian دوربین (durbin).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dyɾˈbin], [dyɾˈbyn]

### Noun

دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
* prospective, perspective glass, monocular, spyglass, telescope

#### Descendants

* Turkish: dürbün
* → Albanian: dyrbi, dylbi
* → Macedonian: дурбин (durbin)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна (archaic)
    Latin script: dùrbīn, durbisna (archaic)

### Adjective

دوربین • (dürbin, dürbün)
* clairvoyant

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* دربین (dorbin) (dialectal)

### Etymology

From دور (dur) +‎ بین (bin). In the sense of a prospective glass, calque of Latin tēlescopum, tēlescopium, transmitted after this device was invented in Europe in the early 17th century by travellers to the East, which however makes it likely that this sense developed in the Ottoman Turkish vocabulary first.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [duːɾ.ˈbiːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪uːɾ.bíːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪uɾ.bín]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪uːɹ.bíːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪uɾ.bín]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Adjective

دوربین • (durbin)
* farsighted, prospective (also figurative)
** c. 1260, Amīr Khusraw, “Ghazal 1483”, in دیوان امیرخسرو‎:فتادم به چاه زنخ گرچه من چو خسرو دلی دوربین داشتمfitādam ba čāh-i zanax garči man čū xusraw dilē dūrbīn dāštamI fell in the dimple of her chin, even though I Had a heart which saw far like [Kay] Khusraw.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Noun

Regional synonyms of "camera" :
| Dari | کَمِرَه |
| Iranian Persian | دوربین |
| Tajik | камера |
دوربین • (durbin)
* (Iran) camera
    دوربین مخفی ― durbin-e maxfi ― secret camera
* (Dari) telescope
* spyglass, perspective glass; binoculars

#### Descendants

* Tajik: дурбин (durbin)
* → Arabic: دَرْبِين (darbīn), دَرْبِيل (darbīl, “telescope; binoculars”) (dialects)
** → Swahili: darubini (“telescope; binoculars”)
* → Armenian: դուրբին (durbin), դիրբին (dirbin), դուլբին (dulbin), դուլբուն (dulbun), տո̈ւլպո̈ւն (tülpün), դո̈ւրբո̈ւն (dürbün), տելբի (telbi), դիլպի (dilpi), դուլդուլ (duldul), տուլտոզ (tultoz), դօ̈լբինդ (dölbind)
* → Azerbaijani: durbin
* → Bengali: দূরবিন (durbin)
* → Georgian: დურბინდი (durbindi)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: दूरबीन (dūrbīn)
    Urdu: دوربین (dūrbīn)
* → Kazakh: дүрбі (dürbı)
* → Ottoman Turkish: دوربین (dürbin, dürbün)
** Turkish: dürbün
** → Albanian: dyrbi, dylbi
** → Macedonian: дурбин (durbin)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ду̀рбӣн, дурбисна (archaic)
    Latin script: dùrbīn, durbisna (archaic)
* → Uyghur: دۇربۇن (durbun)
* → Uzbek: durbin

### References

* Bläsing, Uwe (1997) “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia‎ (in German), number 2, § 28. durde (Tunceli) ‘Fernglas’, pages 93–96

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دوربین (dūr-bīn).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪uːɾ.biːn/

### Noun

دوربین • (dūr-bīn) f (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
* binoculars, telescope

### Adjective

دوربین • (dūr-bīn) (Hindi spelling दूरबीन)
* farsighted, far-seeing

#### Synonyms

* دور اندیش (dūr-andesh)

### Related terms

* دور بینی (dūr-bīnī, “foresight, telescopic”)