atabek

plural atabeks

1. alternativehistoricalAlternative spelling of atabeg.

   ...in 511/1118 Tughril was but a child. His first atabek was Shīr-gīr...

   1978, Vladimir Minorsky, The Turks, Iran, and the Caucasus in the Middle Ages, page 346

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   It has been remarked, that this prince established Saad Ebn Zenki, who had been his governor, lieutenant-general of all his dominions, under the title of atâbek; which signifying Father of the Prince, and being given to the tutors of the Seljûkian princes, became afterwards a title of dignity.

   1780, The Modern Part of an Universal History, Vol. III, Ch. IV, §9, p. 128

   Since the Atābek stood in a paternal relationship to the Saljūqid "king" he enjoyed an authority far above that of the ordinary generals; it seems also to have been the custom for the Atābek to receive in marriage the mother of his charge and to give one of his daughters in marriage to him.

   1932, H.A.R. Gibb, The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and translated from the chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalānisī, page 24