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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka, “kingdom”).
Pronunciation
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mamlakat
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mamlakat
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mamlekat
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mamlakat
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Noun
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مملکت
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مملکت • (mamlekat) (plural ممالک (mamâlek) or مملکتها (mamlekat-hâ))
- country, realm
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:شه ممالک دردم بلا پناه منست
غمم که بی حد و پایان بود سپاه منست- šah-i mamālik-i dardam balā panāh-i man ast
ğamam ki bē had u pāyān buwad sipāh-i man ast - I am king of the realms of pain, calamity is my refuge,
The grief that has no limit nor end is my army.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مملکت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَمْلَکَت (mamlakat), from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi مملکت (mamlakat /mmlkt/).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
مَمْلُکَت or مَمْلَکَت • (mamlukat or mamlakat) f (Hindi spelling ममलकत)
- kingdom; empire (dominion)
- (figuratively) grandeur, magnificence[2]
See also
References
- ^ “مملکت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “مملکت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
Further reading
More information
- “مملکت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مملکت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “مملکت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC