اختيار

See also: اختیار

Arabic

Root
خ ي ر (ḵ y r)
11 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِخْتَارَ (iḵtāra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ix.ti.jaːr/
Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

اِخْتِيَار • (iḵtiyār) m (plural اِخْتِيَارَات (iḵtiyārāt))

(uncountable) verbal noun of اِخْتَارَ (iḵtāra) (form VIII)
choice
election
(philosophy) free will

Declension

Declension of noun **اِخْتِيَار** (iḵtiyār)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	اِخْتِيَار iḵtiyār	الِاخْتِيَار al-iḵtiyār	اِخْتِيَار iḵtiyār
nominative	اِخْتِيَارٌ iḵtiyārun	الِاخْتِيَارُ al-iḵtiyāru	اِخْتِيَارُ iḵtiyāru
accusative	اِخْتِيَارًا iḵtiyāran	الِاخْتِيَارَ al-iḵtiyāra	اِخْتِيَارَ iḵtiyāra
genitive	اِخْتِيَارٍ iḵtiyārin	الِاخْتِيَارِ al-iḵtiyāri	اِخْتِيَارِ iḵtiyāri
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	اِخْتِيَارَيْن iḵtiyārayn	الِاخْتِيَارَيْن al-iḵtiyārayn	اِخْتِيَارَيْ iḵtiyāray
nominative	اِخْتِيَارَانِ iḵtiyārāni	الِاخْتِيَارَانِ al-iḵtiyārāni	اِخْتِيَارَا iḵtiyārā
accusative	اِخْتِيَارَيْنِ iḵtiyārayni	الِاخْتِيَارَيْنِ al-iḵtiyārayni	اِخْتِيَارَيْ iḵtiyāray
genitive	اِخْتِيَارَيْنِ iḵtiyārayni	الِاخْتِيَارَيْنِ al-iḵtiyārayni	اِخْتِيَارَيْ iḵtiyāray
plural	sound feminine plural
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	اِخْتِيَارَات iḵtiyārāt	الِاخْتِيَارَات al-iḵtiyārāt	اِخْتِيَارَات iḵtiyārāt
nominative	اِخْتِيَارَاتٌ iḵtiyārātun	الِاخْتِيَارَاتُ al-iḵtiyārātu	اِخْتِيَارَاتُ iḵtiyārātu
accusative	اِخْتِيَارَاتٍ iḵtiyārātin	الِاخْتِيَارَاتِ al-iḵtiyārāti	اِخْتِيَارَاتِ iḵtiyārāti
genitive	اِخْتِيَارَاتٍ iḵtiyārātin	الِاخْتِيَارَاتِ al-iḵtiyārāti	اِخْتِيَارَاتِ iḵtiyārāti

Derived terms

اِخْتِيَارِيّ (iḵtiyāriyy)

Descendants

→ Classical Persian: اختیار (ixtiyâr)
- → Avar: ихтияр (ixtijar)
- → Azerbaijani: ixtiyar
- → Bashkir: ихтыяр (ixtıyar)
- → Bengali: এখতিয়ার (ekhtiẏar)
- → Chagatai: اختیار
  - Uyghur: ئىختىيار (ixtiyar)
  - Uzbek: ixtiyor
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: इख़्तियार (ixtiyār)
  
  Urdu: اختیار (ixtiyār)
- → Kazakh: ықтияр (yqtiär)
- → Kyrgyz: ыктыяр (ıktıyar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: اختیار (ihtiyar)
  - Turkish: ihtiyar
- → Vaghri: અખત્યાર (akhatyār)
- → Turkmen: ygtyýar
→ Malay: ikhtiar
- Indonesian: ikhtiar

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “اختيار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
Wehr, Hans (1979) “خير”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN