بادشاہت

Urdu

Alternative forms

• پادْشاہَت (pādśāhat)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاهت (“royalty”). By surface analysis, بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh, “king, monarch”) +‎ َت (at).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪.ʃɑː.ɦət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: بادْ‧شا‧ہَت

Noun

بادْشاہَت • (bādśāhat) f (Hindi spelling बादशाहत) (chiefly historical)

1. monarchy

   Synonym: راج شاہی (rāj śāhī)

2. dominion, empire, state

   Synonyms: مُمْلِکَت (mumlikat), راج (rāj), سَلْطَنَت (saltanat)

3. kingdom, sovereignty
4. reign; the rank or office of a badshah or padishah

   Synonyms: شاہی (śāhī), بادْشاہی (bādśāhī), راج (rāj)

5. (religion) kingdom (ie. reign of God)

Declension

Declension of بادشاہت

	singular	plural
direct	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتیں (bādśāhatẽ)
oblique	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتوں (bādśāhatõ)
vocative	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتو (bādśāhato)

Further reading

• “بادشاہت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بادشاہت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بادشاه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 92
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بادشاہت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 119
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “بادشاه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 200
• John Shakespear (1834), “بادشاهت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 193