ولایت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

ولایت • (vilayet)

1. province

Descendants

• Turkish: vilayet
• → English: vilayet
• → French: vilayet
• → German: Wilajet
• → Hungarian: vilajet

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	w
Dari reading?	w
Iranian reading?	v
Tajik reading?	v

Noun

Dari	ولایت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	вилоят

ولایت • (velâyat) (plural ولایت‌ها (velâyat-hâ) or ولایات (velâyât))

1. province

   Synonym: استان (ostân)

Descendants

• → Assamese: বিলাত (bilat)
• → Bengali: বিলাত (bilat)
• → Burmese: ဘိလပ် (bhi.lap)
• → Gujarati: વિલાયત (vilāyat)
• → Hindustani: vilāyat
  • Hindi: विलायत
  • Urdu: وِلَایَت (vilāyat)
    • → English: Blighty
• → Marathi: विलायत (vilāyat)
• → Odia: ବିଲାତ (bilāta)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ولایت (vilayet)
  • Turkish: vilayet
  • → English: vilayet
  • → French: vilayet
  • → German: Wilajet
  • → Hungarian: vilajet
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਲਾਇਤ (valāita)

  Shahmukhi script: وَلایت (valāyt)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: وِلائِتُ

  Devanagari script: विलाइत

• → Thai: วิลาด (wí-lâat)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ولایت (vilāyat), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya). Compare Marathi विलायत (vilāyat), Bengali বিলাত (bilat).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʋɪ.lɑː.jət̪/

Noun

وِلایَت • (vilāyat) m (Hindi spelling विलायत)

1. province
2. state

Derived terms

• وِلائتی (vilā'yatī)

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.