مملکت
See also: مملكت
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka, “kingdom”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /mam.la.ˈkat/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæm.le.kʰʲǽt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | mamlakat |
| Dari reading? | mamlakat |
| Iranian reading? | mamlekat |
| Tajik reading? | mamlakat |
Noun
مملکت • (mamlakat / mamlekat) (plural ممالک (mamālik / mamâlek), or مملکتها (mamlakat-hā / mamlekat-hâ), Tajik spelling мамлакат)
- country, realm
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:
- شه ممالک دردم بلا پناه منست
غمم که بی حد و پایان بود سپاه منست- šah-i mamālik-i dardam balā panāh-i man ast
ġammam ki bē hadd u pāyān buwad sipāh-i man ast - I am king of the realms of pain, calamity is my refuge,
The grief that has no limit nor end is my army.
- šah-i mamālik-i dardam balā panāh-i man ast
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مملکت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَمْلَکَت (mamlakat), from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi مملکت (mamlakat /mmlkt/).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /məm.lʊ.kət̪/, /məm.lə.kət̪/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): [mʊm.lɪ.kət]
- Rhymes: -ət̪
- Hyphenation: مَم‧لُ‧کَت
Noun
مَمْلُکَت or مَمْلَکَت • (mamlukat or mamlakat) f (Hindi spelling ममलकत)
Related terms
- صَدْرِ مَمْلِکَت (sadr-i mamlikat, “head of state”)
- مَمْلِکَتِ مُتَحِدَّہ (mamlikat-i mutahidda, “United Kingdom”)
See also
Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ك (0 c, 5 e)
References
- ^ “مملکت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “مملکت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
Further reading
More information
- “مملکت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مملکت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “مملکت”, 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