نبیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَبِيل (nabīl).

Adjective

نبیل • (nebîl) (feminine نبیله (nebîle), masculine plural نبلا (nübelâ))

expert at archery
noble and shrewdly intelligent, superior

Descendants

Turkish: nebil

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نبیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2071

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