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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِقْلِيم (ʔiqlīm), from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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iqlīm
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| Dari reading?
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iqlīm
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| Iranian reading?
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eğlim
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| Tajik reading?
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iqlim
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Noun
| Dari
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اقلیم
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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иқлим
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اِقْلِیم • (iqlīm)
- climate
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Descendants
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian اِقْلِیم (iqlīm), from Arabic إِقْلِيم (ʔiqlīm), from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).
Pronunciation
Noun
اِقْلِیم • (iqlīm) f (Hindi spelling इक़्लीम)
- continent
- realm, region; clime
- (archaic) country, dominion
- a part of the body
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See also
References
- “اقلیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اقلیم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “اقلیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “اقلیم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “اقلیم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.