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Azerbaijani
Noun
حیات
- Arabic spelling of həyat
Old Hindi
Noun
حیات (ḥyat) f (Middle Hindi)
- life
- soul
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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hayāt
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| Dari reading?
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hayāt
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| Iranian reading?
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heyât
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| Tajik reading?
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hayot
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Noun
| Dari
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حیات
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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ҳаёт
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حیات • (hayât)
- life
- Synonyms: زندگانی (zendegâni), زندگی (zendegi)
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حیات (hayāt), from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).
Noun
حیات • (hayāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਯਾਤ)
- life
- Synonyms: زِندَگی (zindagī), جِیوَن (jīvan), جِندَڑی (jindaṛī), جان (jān)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیَات (hayāt), from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi حیات (ḥyat /hayāt/).
Pronunciation
Adjective
حَیَات • (hayāt) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling हयात)
- (chiefly India, Karachi, polite) alive
- Synonyms: زِنْدَہ (zinda), مَوجُود (maujūd)
Noun
حَیَات • (hayāt) f (Hindi spelling हयात) (formal)
- life, lifetime
- Synonyms: جِیوَن (jīvan), زِنْدَگِی (zindagī)
- Antonym: مَمات (mamāt)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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حَیَات (hayāt)
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حَیَات (hayāt)
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| oblique
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حَیَات (hayāt)
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حَیَاتوں (hayātõ)
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| vocative
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حَیَات (hayāt)
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حَیَاتو (hayāto)
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Further reading
- “حیات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “حیات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “حيات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “حيات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 482
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “حیات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 588
- John Shakespear (1834) “حیات”, 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