Emine

The origin of Emine is Arabic, but its source word has not been clearly established, and two accounts are given.[3] It may be either the feminine form of Emin or a derivative of the African, Arabic, English, and Swahili name Amina.[4][5][6] Emmie is considered to be the Western version of the name.[2]

The name of a sixth-century Leinster-based Irish cleric was Émíne.[7] Emine was also the given name of the Roman emperor's daughter who was the lover of the Sultan of Babylon.[8] The name was one of the 16th century Ottoman feminine names recorded in Istanbul.[9]

Notable people with that name include:

The word Emine has also been used for geographical areas and places. A headland at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is called Cape Emine.[10] In addition, there is Emine Mountain or Emine Dagh in Stara planina in Bulgaria.[11][12] The other related geographical term is Emine Balkan, which was used by the Bulgarians instead of Rumeli (Roman country) to refer to the territory of Bulgaria where some Turkish tribes had lived since the 11th century.[11] Here, the word is derived not from Arabic, but from Greek (Haemus: Αἵμον [acc.]), where it is, in turn, a derivative of *Ἔμμωνα, Emona, discovered in documents of the early 14th century.[12] 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 words "Aimos", "Emmon", and "Emmona".[13] In Ijevan, Armenia, a quarters is called Emine kışlağı.[14]

In the 16th century Ottoman Empire, emine was the term used for export tax.[15]