انسانیت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Arabic إِنْسَانِيَّة (ʔinsāniyya)

Noun

انسانیت • (insaniyet)

  1. humanity

Descendants

  • Turkish: insaniyet

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْسَانِيَّة (ʔinsāniyya). By surface analysis, انسان (insān / ensân) +‎ ـیت (-iyyat).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪn.sɑː.ni.jǽt̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪn.sɑː.ni.jǽt̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔin.sɔː.ni.jǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading? insāniyyat
Dari reading? insāniyat
Iranian reading? ensâniyat
Tajik reading? insoniyat

Noun

انسانیت • (insāniyyat / ensâniyat) (Tajik spelling инсоният)

  1. humanity, civility, humaneness (quality of being a good human)
    Synonym: بشریت (bašariyyat)

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْسَانِیَّت (insāniyyat), from Arabic إِنْسَانِيَّة (ʔinsāniyya).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪn.sɑː.nɪ.jət̪/
  • Rhymes: -ət̪
  • Hyphenation: اِنْ‧سا‧نِ‧یَت

Noun

اِنْسانِیَت • (insāniyatf (Hindi spelling इनसानियत)

  1. humanity

Further reading

  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “انسانیت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 155
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “انسانیت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 92
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “انسانیت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 79
  • انسانیت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “انسانیت”, 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
  • انسانیت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu انسانیت (insānīyat).

Noun

انسانیت (insānīyat)

  1. humanity