ولایت
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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian ولایت, derived from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).
Noun
ولایت • (vilayet) (plural ولایات)
Descendants
- Turkish: vilayet
- → Armenian: վիլայեթ (vilayetʻ)
- → English: vilayet
- → French: vilayet
- → German: Wilajet
- → Albanian: vilajet
- → Dutch: vilajet
- → Hungarian: vilajet
Persian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | wilāyat |
| Dari reading? | wilāyat |
| Iranian reading? | velâyat |
| Tajik reading? | viloyat |
Noun
| Dari | ولایت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | вилоят |
وِلَايَت • (velâyat) (plural ولایتها (velâyat-hâ) or ولایات (velâyât))
Descendants
- → Assamese: বিলাত (bilat)
- → Bengali: বিলাত (bilat)
- → Burmese: ဘိလပ် (bhi.lap)
- → Gujarati: વિલાયત (vilāyat)
- → Hindustani: vilāyat
- → Marathi: विलायत (vilāyat)
- → Odia: ବିଲାତ (bilatô)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ولایت (vilayet)
- → Punjabi:
- → Sindhi:
- → Thai: วิลาด (wí-lâat)
- → Turkmen:
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian ولایت (wilāyat), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya). Compare Marathi विलायत (vilāyat), Bengali বিলাত (bilat)/বিলেত (bilet).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʋɪ.lɑː.jət̪/
Noun
وِلایَت • (vilāyat) m (Hindi spelling विलायत)
- province, state, realm, inhabited country or region
- dominion, government, jurisdiction
- Synonym: حکومت (hukūmat)
- a foreign country, especially one in the West (historically only Europe but now North America as well as other places largely populated by people of European descent)
- (obsolete) England, United Kingdom, Great Britain
- (historical, obsolete) Kabulistan; Persia
Derived terms
- وِلائتی (vilā'itī)
Further reading
- “ولایت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ولایت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ولايت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “ولايت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.