Emine is an

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-origin

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used for females in

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. 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. It is also argued that the word means beautiful. 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. It may be either the feminine form of '' Emin'' or a derivative of the African, Arabic, English, and

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name

Amina Amina (or Aminah) is the loose transcription of two different Arabic female given names: * ʾĀmina (Arabic: آمنة, also anglicized as ''Aaminah'' or ''Amna'') meaning "safe one, protected" * ʾAmīna (Arabic: أمينة, also anglicized as ''Am ...

. Emmie is considered to be the Western version of the name. The name of a sixth-century

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-based Irish cleric was ''Émíne''. ''Emine'' was also the given name of the Roman emperor's daughter who was the lover of the Sultan of

Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...

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's historical romance ''The History of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy''. The name was one of the 16th century Ottoman feminine names recorded in

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Given name

Notable people with that name include:

Female

* Emine Naciye Sultan, full name of Naciye Sultan (1896–1957), Ottoman princess *

Emine Arıcı Emine Arıcı (born 17 January 1997 in İzmir) is a Turkish female volleyball player who plays in the middle blocker position for Türk Hava Yolları (women's volleyball), Türk Hava Yolları and the Turkey women's national volleyball team. Car ...

(born 1997), Turkish volleyball player * Emine Arslan (born 1989), Turkish kickboxer * Emine Ayna (born 1968), Turkish politician * Emine Bilgin (born 1984), Turkish weightlifter * Emine Bozkurt (born 1967), Dutch politician of Turkish descent * Emine Çaykara (born 1964), Turkish historian and writer * Emine Çolak (born 1958), Turkish Cypriot lawyer * Emine Demir (born 1993), Turkish footballer * Emine Demirtaş (born 1997), Turkish badminton player * Emine Dzhaparova (born 1983), Crimean Tatar journalist and politician *

Emine Ecem Esen Emine Ecem Esen (born May 3, 1994) is a Turkish Women's association football, women's footballer who plays as a midfielder in the First League for Galatasaray S.K. (women's football), Galatasaray. She is a member of the Turkey women's national fo ...

(born 1994), Turkish footballer *

Emine Erdoğan Emine Erdoğan (; born 16 February 1955) is the current first lady of Turkey as the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Early and personal life Early life Emine Erdoğan was born as Cemal and Hayriye Gülbaran’s fifth child and only ...

(born 1955), wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan * Emine Fetvaci, Turkish art historian and academic * Emine Gevheri Kadın (1856–1884), Ottoman consort of Sultan Abdulaziz * Emine Göğebakan (born 2001), Turkish taekwondo practitioner * Emine Gökdemir (born 2003), Turkish handball player * Emine Mebrure Gönenç (1900–1981), Turkish teacher and politician * Emine Gümüş (born 1992), Turkish footballer * Emine Guri (born 1937), Albanian politician *

Emine Hatun Emine Hatun (, or 'trustworthy'; died in 1449) was the legal wife of Sultan Mehmed I of the Ottoman Empire and the mother of his successor Murad II. Early life Emine Hatun was born as a Dulkadirid princess, the daughter of Mehmed of Dulkadir ...

(died 1449), wife of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I * Emina Ilhamy (1858–1931), Egyptian royal * Emine Işınsu (1938–2021), Turkish writer *

Emine Kara Emine Kara, also known by the nom de guerre Evîn Goyî, (1974 – 23 December 2022) was a Turkish Kurdish militant and political activist who served as president of the . Originally from Turkey, she fled to the Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 1994 ...

(1974–2022), Kurdish militant and political activist * Emine Mihrişah Sultan (died 1732), French-born second concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, and the mother of Mustafa III * Emine Mukbile Sultan (1911–1995), Ottoman princess * Emine Muslihe Kadın (1699–1750), Ottoman consort of Sultan Ahmed III * Emine Gulbahar Hatun (died 1492), Ottoman lady and mother of Sultan Bayezid II * Emine Nazikeda (1866–1941), principal consort of Sultan Mehmet VI, the last Ottoman sultan * Emine Nemika Sultan (1888–1969), Ottoman princess * Emine Nur Günay (born 1962), Turkish economist, politician and parliamentarian * Emine Sabancı Kamışlı (born 1966), Turkish billionaire businesswoman * Emine Sare Aydın (born 1975), Turkish politician and academic * Emine Seçkin (borm 1980), Turkish para-badminton player * Emine Semiye Önasya (1864-1944), Turkish writer * Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 1946), Turkish-German actress, director and author *

Emine Sultan (daughter of Abdulaziz) Emine Sultan (; 24 August 1874 – 29 January 1920) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz and Neşerek Kadın. Early life Emine Sultan was born on 24 August 1874 in at the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Sultan Abd ...

(1874–1920), Ottoman princess *

Emine Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II) Emine Sultan (; "''trustworthy''" or "''benign''"; 1 September 1696 – 1739) was an Ottoman dynasty, Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Mustafa II and half-sister of Sultans Mahmud I and Osman III of the Ottoman Empire. Life Birth Emine Sult ...

(1696–1739), Ottoman princess * Emine Ülker Tarhan (born 1963), Turkish jurist and politician

Male

* Emînê Evdal (1906–1964), Kurdish writer, linguist and poet

Middle name

* Suzan Emine Kaube (born 1942), Turkish-German writer, painter and pedagogue

Other usages

The word ''Emine'' has also been used for geographical areas and places. A headland at the Bulgarian

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

coast is called

Cape Emine Cape Emine ( ) is a headland located at the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is located south of Varna, north of Burgas and south of Obzor. It forms the tip of Stara Planina. Cape Emine is said to be Bulgaria's stormiest cape. In the Middle ...

. In addition, there is ''Emine Mountain'' or ''Emine Dagh'' in

Stara planina The Balkan mountain range is located in the eastern part of the Balkan peninsula in Southeastern Europe. It is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border between Bulgaria and Serbia. It then runs for about , first ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

. The other related geographical term is ''Emine Balkan'', which was used by the

Bulgarians Bulgarians (, ) are a nation and South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language. They form the majority of the population in Bulgaria, ...

instead of ''

Rumeli Rumelia (; ; ) was a historical region in Southeastern Europe that was administered by the Ottoman Empire, roughly corresponding to the Balkans. In its wider sense, it was used to refer to all Ottoman possessions and vassals in Europe. These ...

'' (Roman country) to refer to the territory of Bulgaria where some Turkish tribes had lived since the 11th century. Here, the word is derived not from Arabic, but from

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

(''Haemus'': Αἵμον cc., where it is, in turn, a derivative of *Ἔμμωνα, ''Emona'', discovered in documents of the early 14th century. 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 The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

words "Aimos", "Emmon", and "Emmona". In

Ijevan Ijevan ( ) is a town and urban municipal community in the Ijevan Municipality of the Tavush Province of Armenia, also serving as the province's administrative centre. It is located at the center of the region, at the foot of Ijevan ridge of Guga ...

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, a quarters is called ''Emine kışlağı''. In the 16th century Ottoman Empire, ''emine'' was the term used for

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