atabey

English

Etymology

From an alternate romanization of medieval Turkish atabeg.

Noun

atabey (plural atabeys)

1. (historical) Alternative spelling of atabeg
   • 1997, Jahangir Zeynaloglu, A Concise History of Azerbaijan, page 27:

     The new Turkic government in Azerbaijan was called the Atabey Government or State. Atabey means the father of beys (nobility title) in Azerbaijani.

   • 2010, Avner Falk, Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, page 121:

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

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

     ... 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.

Anagrams

• Abeyta