ولایت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ولایت, derived from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

Noun

ولایت • (vilayet) (plural ولایات)

  1. province

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
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [wɪ.lɑː.jät̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [wɪ.lɑː.jät̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [wi.lɔː.jät̪]

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))

  1. province
    Synonym: استان (ostân)

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ولایت (wilāyat), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya). Compare Marathi विलायत (vilāyat), Bengali বিলাত (bilat)/বিলেত (bilet).

Pronunciation

Noun

وِلایَت • (vilāyat) m (Hindi spelling विलायत)

  1. province, state, realm, inhabited country or region
    Synonyms: صوبہ (sūbā), ریاست (riyāsat), مُلک (mulk)
  2. dominion, government, jurisdiction
    Synonym: حکومت (hukūmat)
  3. 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)
  4. (obsolete) England, United Kingdom, Great Britain
  5. (historical, obsolete) Kabulistan; Persia

Derived terms

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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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.
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