اختیار

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Noun

اختیار • (ihtiyar)

  1. election

Descendants

  • Turkish: ihtiyar

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ixtiyār
Dari reading? ixtiyār
Iranian reading? extiyâr
Tajik reading? ixtiyor

Noun

Dari اختیار
Iranian Persian
Tajik ихтиёр

اِختِیار • (extiyâr) (plural اختیارات (extiyârât))

  1. option
    Synonyms: خیار (xiyâr), گزینه (gozine), انتخاب (entexâb)
  2. choice
    Synonym: انتخاب (entexâb)
  3. authority, power to choose
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 267”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:
      دل به رغبت می‌سپارد جان به چشم مست یار
      گرچه هشیاران ندادند اختیار خود به کس
      dil ba rağbat mē-sipārad jān ba čašm-i mast-i yār
      garči hušyārān na-dādand ixtiyār-i xwad ba kas
      My soul joyfully entrusts my heart to the beloved's drunken eyes,
      Though the wise do not grant authority to anyone.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِخْتِیَار (ixtiyār), from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِخْتِیَار • (ixtiyār) m (formal plural اِخْتِیَارَات (ixtiyārāt), Hindi spelling इख़्तियार)

  1. power, authority, jurisdiction
  2. choice, adoption, control, discretion, option
  3. imprimatur

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “اختیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “اختیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اختيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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