انقلاب

Verbal noun of اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba).

• IPA^(key): /in.qi.laːb/
• Rhymes: -aːb

اِنْقِلَاب • (inqilāb) m (plural اِنْقِلَابَات (inqilābāt))

1. (uncountable) verbal noun of اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba) (form VII)
2. coup d'état
3. revolution
4. solstice

Learned borrowing from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

• IPA^(key): /in.ɡi.laːb/, [ɪŋ.ɡɪ.ˈlaːb], [ɪŋ.qɪ.ˈlaːb]

اِنْقِلاب • (ingilāb) m (plural اِنْقِلابات (ingilābāt))

1. coup d'état
2. revolution

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

انقلاب • (inḳılâb)

1. a being turned back or around; reversion; inversion; diversion
2. a changing; change; revolution
3. (archaic) reform

• Turkish: inkılap
• Crimean Tatar: inqilâp

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انقلاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 227

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

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انقلاب • (enqelâb) (plural انقلابات, or انقلاب‌ها)

1. change
2. revolution

   Synonym: رولوسیون (revolusyon)

   انقلاب اسلامی ― enqelâb-e eslâmi ― the Islamic revolution of 1979, i.e. the Iranian Revolution

   قبل از انقلاب ― qabl az enqelâb ― before the revolution

   پس از انقلاب ― pas az enqelâb ― after the revolution

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb), from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪn.qɪ.lɑːb/, /ɪn.qə.lɑːb/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːb

اِنْقِلاب or اِنْقَلاب • (inqilāb or inqalāb) m (formal plural انقلابات, Hindi spelling इंक़लाब or इंक़िलाब)

1. revolution
2. coup d'état

• “انقلاب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “انقلاب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.