محبت

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba, “love”).

محبت • (muhabbet) (definite accusative محبتی (muhabbeti), plural محبتلر (muhabbetler))

1. conversation, chat, talk, banter, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, expression and exchange of ideas through talking with other people

   Synonyms: صحبت (sohbet), لقردی (lakırdı)

2. love, affection, fondness, attachment, tenderness, a strong bonding with someone or something, a deep caring for the existence of another

   Synonyms: سوكی (sevgi), عشق (ʼeşk)

3. friendship, the condition of being friends, a relationship of mutual affection between people, stronger than an acquaintance or association

   Synonym: دوستلق (dostluk)

• Turkish: muhabbet
• → Albanian: muhabet
  • → Aromanian: muabeti
• → Armenian: մուհապէթ (muhapētʻ)
• → Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
• → Ladino: moabet
• → Macedonian: муабет (muabet)
• → Pontic Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “muhabbet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3276
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muhabbet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 794
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “محبت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1126
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amicitia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 56
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “محبة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4424
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muhabbet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محبت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1757

Borrowed from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba). The predominant shift of the first vowel from /a/ to /u/ is due to analogy with the large number of Arabic participles with initial /mu/ such as مهندس (muhandis, mohandes, “engineer”), محاربه (muhāraba, mohârabe, “war”) etc.

مُحَبَّت or مَحَبَّت • (mohabbat or mahabbat)

1. love
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1529:

     از محبت تلخها شیرین شود
     از محبت مسها زرین شود

     az mahabbat talx-hā šīrīn šawad
     az mahabbat mis-hā zarīn šawad

     By love bitter things become sweet;
     by love pieces of copper become golden;

2. affection
3. kindness

• → Bashkir: мөхәббәт (möxəbbət)
• → Bengali: মহব্বত (mohobbot)
• → Gujarati: મોહબત (mohbat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मुहब्बत (muhabbat), मोहब्बत (mohabbat)

  Urdu: محبت (mohabbat, muhabbat)

• → Malayalam: മുഹബ്ബത്ത് (muhabbattŭ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: محبت (muḥabbet)
  • Turkish: muhabbet
  • → Albanian: muhabet
    • → Aromanian: muabeti
  • → Armenian: մուհապէթ (muhapētʻ)
  • → Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
  • → Ladino: moabet
  • → Macedonian: муабет (muabet)
  • → Pontic Greek: μουχαμπέτι (mouchampéti)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੁਹੱਬਤ (muhabbat)

  Shahmukhi script: محبت (muḥabbat)

• → Tatar: мәхәббәт (mäxäbbät)
• → Uyghur: مۇھەببەت (muhebbet)
• → Uzbek: muhabbat, муҳаббат (muhabbat)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “محبت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُحَبَّت (muhabbat), borrowed from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba), from حَبَّ (ḥabba). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi محبت (mḥbt).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.ɦəb.bət̪/, /mʊ.ɦəb.bət̪/, [mo.ɦəb.bət̪], [mɔ.ɦɔb.bət̪]

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• Rhymes: -ət̪

مَحَبَّت or مُحَبَّت • (mahabbat or muhabbat) f (Hindi spelling मोहब्बत or मुहब्बत)

1. love
2. affection
3. dedication, attachment

• “محبت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “محبت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]