ولایت
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).
Noun
ولایت • (vilayet) (plural ولایات)
- province
Descendants
- Turkish: vilayet
- → Armenian: վիլայեթ (vilayetʿ)
- → English: vilayet
- → French: vilayet
- → German: Wilajet
- → Hungarian: vilajet
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /wilɑːjat/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /wɪlɒːjat/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /velɒːjæt/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /vilɔːjat/
Noun
Dari | ولایت |
---|---|
Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | вилоят (viloyat) |
ولایت • (velâyat) (plural ولایتها (velâyat-hâ) or ولایات (velâyât))
- province
- Synonym: استان (ostân)
Descendants
- → Assamese: বিলাত (bilat)
- → Bengali: বিলাত (bilat)
- → Burmese: ဘိလပ် (bhi.lap)
- → Gujarati: વિલાયત (vilāyat)
- → Hindustani: vilāyat
- Hindi: विलायत
- Urdu: وِلَایَت
- → English: Blighty
- → Marathi: विलायत (vilāyat)
- → Oriya: ବିଲାତ (bilatô)
- → Ottoman Turkish: ولایت (vilayet)
- Turkish: vilayet
- → Armenian: վիլայեթ (vilayetʿ)
- → English: vilayet
- → French: vilayet
- → German: Wilajet
- → Hungarian: vilajet
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਵਲਾਇਤ (valāita)
- Shahmukhi: وَلایت (valāyt)
- → Sindhi:
- Arabic: وِلائِتُ
- Devanagari: विलाइत
- → Thai: วิลาด (wí-lâat)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian ولایت (vilāyat), 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
- Synonyms: صوبہ (sūbā), ریاست (riyāsat), مُلک (mulk)
- 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 (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “ولایت”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- 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.