wilayah

• wilaya

Borrowed from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya). Doublet of vilayet.

wilayah (plural wilayahs or wilayat)

1. A province or administrative division in some Arabic countries.
   • 2016, Brian L. Steed, ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 146:

     Some of these wilayahs are more powerful and influential than others. Most, if not all, of the wilayahs act like terrorist groups or nonstate actors.

   • 2017, Patrick Crowley, Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism, 1988–2015, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 104:

     The wilayas [provincial governorates] of Illizi and Adrar in the Sahara have the highest number of cultural associations for their populations, according to the ministry's figures.

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• wilayah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Malay wilayah, from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

wilayah

1. territory

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

wilayah

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From Malay wilayah, from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

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• Hyphenation: wi‧la‧yah

wilayah (first-person possessive wilayahku, second-person possessive wilayahmu, third-person possessive wilayahnya)

1. territory, area or region

• “wilayah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

wilayah

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From Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

• IPA^(key): /wilaːˈyɑː/

wilayah (Jawi spelling ولايه, plural wilayah-wilayah, informal 1st possessive wilayahku, 2nd possessive wilayahmu, 3rd possessive wilayahnya)

1. (politics) territory, area or region
2. (Kelantan, Pattani) changwat, a province of Thailand

• “wilayah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.