ایالت

See also: إيالة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla).

Noun

ایالت • (eyâlet) (plural ایالات)

1. a province, a principality
   1. eyalet (administrative division of the Ottoman Empire)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• ایالت آناطولی (Eyalet-i Anadolu)

Descendants

• Turkish: eyalet
• → English: eyalet
• → French: eyalet
• → German: Ejalet
• ⇒ Portuguese: eialete
• → Russian: эялет (ejalet)
• ⇒ Spanish: eyalato

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایالت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 285

Pashto

Etymology

From Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla).

Noun

ایالت • (iyālát) m

1. district, province, state

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɑː.ˈlat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɑː.lǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɑː.lǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɑː.lǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɔː.lǽt̪]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɒː.lǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɒː.lǽt̪]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [ejɒː.lǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.jɔ.lǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	iyālat
Dari reading?	iyālat
Iranian reading?	iyâlat
Tajik reading?	iyolat

Noun

Dari	ایالت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	иёлат

ایالت • (eyâlat) (plural ایالات (eyâlât))

1. province, state
   1. eyalet (administrative division of the Ottoman Empire)

Derived terms

• ایالات متحده آمریکا (eyâlât-e mottahede-ye âmrikâ, “United States of America”)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: इयालत (iyālat)

  Urdu: اِیالَت (iyālat)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ایالت (iyālat, “administration”), from Arabic إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.jɑː.lət̪/

Noun

اِیالَت • (iyālat) f (Hindi spelling इयालत)

1. government, state
2. rule, dominion

Synonyms

• (State, dominion): سلطنت (saltanat)
• (rule, dominion): راج (rāj)
• (government): حکومت (hukūmat)

Further reading

• “ایالت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ايالت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “ایالت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.