Beynelmilel

Beynelmilel is a Turkish adjective meaning international or international, used to describe relations, laws, or matters that cross national borders or involve multiple nations. The term is found in Ottoman Turkish and early republican Turkish and has historically been used in official, diplomatic, and literary contexts to denote the realm of relations between different nations or states.

The word is formed from a sense of between or among nations, and it historically functioned as a formal or classical synonym for international. In modern Turkish, beynelmilel is largely considered archaic or formal, and the more common term for everyday use is uluslararası. Despite this shift, beynelmilel continues to appear in historical texts, formal discourse, or stylistic writing to evoke a traditional or ceremonial register.

In contemporary Turkish, beynelmilel may occur in compound phrases such as beynelmilel hukuk (international law), beynelmilel ilişkiler (international relations), or beynelmilel örgütler (international organizations), though these concepts are usually expressed with uluslararası in modern prose. The term remains part of the linguistic record as an older or literary synonym for international affairs.

See also: Uluslararası, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish vocabulary.