ihtiyat

Borrowed from Arabic اِحْتِيَاط (iḥtiyāṭ), from صَلَاة الِاحْتِيَاط (ṣalāt al-iḥtiyāṭ)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ihˈtijat/ [ihˈt̪i.jat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ijat
• Syllabification: ih‧ti‧yat

ihtiyat (plural ihtiyat-ihtiyat)

1. (Islam) a precaution taken in determining prayer times by adding or subtracting time so as not to precede the start of the prayer time and not to exceed the end of the prayer time

From Ottoman Turkish احتیاط (ihtiyat), from Arabic اِحْتِيَاط (iḥtiyāṭ), verbal noun of اِحْتَاطَ (iḥtāṭa, “to be careful, to take precautions”).

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ihtiyat (definite accusative ihtiyatı, plural ihtiyatlar)

1. precaution
2. reserve
3. (military) reserves

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ihtiyat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “احتیاط”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 37
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN