atabey

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A form of atabeg — A high medieval Turkish feudal title, originally charged with the caretaking and mentoring of the realm's crown prince.

OriginTurkish atabeg →
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Meanings

nounatabey (plural atabeys)

plural atabeys

  1. alternativehistoricalAlternative spelling of atabeg.

    The Turkish title of atabeg (also atabek or atabey), meaning "father prince", was a hereditary title of the Turkish nobility.

    2010, Avner Falk, Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, page 121
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    The new Turkic government in Azerbaijan was called the Atabey Government or State. Atabey means the father of beys (nobility title) in Azerbaijani.

    1997, Jahangir Zeynaloglu, A Concise History of Azerbaijan, page 27

    ... finally the atabey of Persia, Zengi, who was the vassal of Jahan Pahlevan, arrested prince Muhammed and gave him to the great atabey of Azerbaijan.

    2014, Ismail bey Zardabli, The History of Azerbaijan, page 166

Origin

  1. Turkishatabeg
  2. Englishatabey

From an alternate romanization of medieval Turkish atabeg.

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Anagrams

Abeyta
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