Emine

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Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox given name Emine is an Arabic-origin given name used for females in Turkey.<ref name=tla>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It has three major meanings: (1) one in whom you can trust and believe, (2) one who is benign and innocuous, and (3) one who is fearless and courageous.<ref name=tla/> It is also argued that the word means beautiful.<ref name=mie/> The name is also used in Japanese (えみね), often with the kanji 笑音 meaning "smiling sound".

Origins and variants

The origin of Emine is Arabic, but its source word has not been clearly established, and two accounts are given.<ref name=asg>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It may be either the feminine form of Emin or a derivative of the African, Arabic, English, and Swahili name Amina.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Emmie is considered to be the Western version of the name.<ref name=mie>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The name of a sixth-century Leinster-based Irish cleric was Émíne.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Emine was also the given name of the Roman emperor's daughter who was the lover of the Sultan of Babylon in Thomas Lodge's historical romance The History of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The name was one of the 16th century Ottoman feminine names recorded in Istanbul.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Given name

Notable people with that name include:

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Other usages

The word Emine has also been used for geographical areas and places. A headland at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is called Cape Emine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In addition, there is Emine Mountain or Emine Dagh in Stara planina in Bulgaria.<ref name=bog/><ref name=pwit>Template:Cite journal</ref> The other related geographical term is Emine Balkan, which was used by the Bulgarians instead of Rumeli (Roman country) to refer to the territory of Bulgaria where some Turkish tribes had lived since the 11th century.<ref name=bog>Template:Cite journal</ref> Here, the word is derived not from Arabic, but from Greek (Haemus: Αἵμον [acc.]), where it is, in turn, a derivative of *Ἔμμωνα, Emona, discovered in documents of the early 14th century.<ref name=pwit/> However, Maria Todorova claims that Emine Balkan is the literal Ottoman translation of "Haemus mountain" and that the term was also employed by the Ottomans who derived the word Emine from the Byzantine words "Aimos", "Emmon", and "Emmona".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In Ijevan, Armenia, a quarters is called Emine kışlağı.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In the 16th century Ottoman Empire, emine was the term used for export tax.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

See also

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