ملت
Arabic
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- مَالْت (mālt)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɒlt/ (i.e., as in English)
Noun
مَلْت • (malt) m
- (nonstandard) malt
Usage notes
The most usual way to refer to malt is by referring to the superordinate concept شَعِير (šaʕīr, “barley”).
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | مَلْت malt |
الْمَلْت al-malt |
مَلْت malt |
| nominative | مَلْتٌ maltun |
الْمَلْتُ al-maltu |
مَلْتُ maltu |
| accusative | مَلْتًا maltan |
الْمَلْتَ al-malta |
مَلْتَ malta |
| genitive | مَلْتٍ maltin |
الْمَلْتِ al-malti |
مَلْتِ malti |
Etymology 2
Verb
ملت (form I)
- مِلْتُ (miltu) /mil.tu/: first-person singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
- مِلْتَ (milta) /mil.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
- مِلْتِ (milti) /mil.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla, “religious community; creed”), perhaps a derivation from Aramaic מִלָּה (mellā, “word, speech, statement”).
Noun
ملت • (millet) (definite accusative ملتی (milleti), plural ملل (milel))
- people, nation, a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, ethnicity and culture
- 1921 February 7, Cerîde-i Resmiyye #1, Teşkilât-ı Esâsiyye Kânûnu:
- ماده ۱ - حاكمیت بلا قیدوشرط ملتكدر.
- Madde 1 - Hakimiyet bilakayduşart milletiñdir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1921 February 7, Cerîde-i Resmiyye #1, Teşkilât-ı Esâsiyye Kânûnu:
- (historical) millet, an indipendent or semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one
Derived terms
- ملت اسلام (millet-i islâm, “the faith of Islam”)
- ملت بیضا (millet-i beyzâ, “the Muslim community”)
- ملت مسیحیه (millet-i mesihiye, “the Christian community”)
- ملتجه (milletce, “as, by, or according to a nation”)
- ملتسز (milletsiz, “not belonging to a religious community”)
Related terms
- ملی (millî, “religious; national”)
Descendants
- Turkish: millet
- → Abaza: амилаҭ
- → Albanian: milet
- → Bulgarian: миле́т (milét)
- → English: millet
- → Macedonian: милет (milet)
- → Serbo-Croatian: mìlet / мѝлет
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “ملت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 784
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “millet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3224
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “millet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 775
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1219
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Populus”, 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 1318
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ملة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4883
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “millet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ملت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1965
Pashto
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Noun
ملت • (millát) m
Related terms
- ملي (millí, “national”)
- مليت (milliyát, “nationality”)
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /mil.ˈlat/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mɪl.lǽt̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mel.lǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mil.lǽt̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | millat |
| Dari reading? | millat |
| Iranian reading? | mellat |
| Tajik reading? | millat |
Noun
| Dari | ملت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | миллат |
مِلَّت • (mellat) (plural ملل (melal), or ملت‌ها)
- nation, people
- (archaic) religious community
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3504:
- که از آن سو جمله‌‌ی ملت یکی ست
صد هزاران سال و یک ساعت یکی ست- ki az ân su jumla-i-millat yaki-st
sad hazaran sâl u yak sâ'at yaki-st - For beyond (the realm of contraries) all religion is one:
hundreds of thousands of years are the same as a single hour.
- ki az ân su jumla-i-millat yaki-st