حقیقت

See also: حقيقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa, “truth, reality”).

Noun

حقیقت • (hakikat) (definite accusative حقیقتی (hakikati), plural حقائق (hakaʼık))

1. truth, reality, veracity, verity, truthful facts, genuine depiction or statements in accord with fact or reality

   Synonyms: طوغری (doğrı), كرچك (gerçek)

2. fact, actuality, something actual as opposed to invented, something which is real and demonstrable

   Synonym: كرچك (gerçek)

3. essence, substance, the property or set of properties and attributes that create the identity of an entity

   Synonyms: جوهر (cevher), ماهیت (mahiyet), مایه (maya, maye)

Derived terms

• حقیقةً (hakikaten, “really, for real”)
• حقیقت بین (hakikat-bîn, “whose opinion is correct”)
• حقیقت حال (hakikat-i hal, “the truth of the matter”)
• حقیقت شرعیه (hakikat-i şerʼiye, “word or thing canonically defined”)
• حقیقت شناس (hakikat şinâs, “who knows reality”)
• حقیقت عرفیه (hakikat-i ʼörfiye, “expression whose figurative meaning is accepted as literal”)
• حقیقت عقلیه (hakikat-i ʼâkliye, “expression used in the literal sense of the words”)
• حقیقت قصره (hakikat-i kasıra, “figurative expression susceptible of more meanings”)
• حقیقت كو (hakikat-gû, “telling the truth”)
• حقیقت لغویه (hakikat-i lügâviye, “expression used in the literal sense of the words”)
• حقیقت مطلقه (hakikat-i mutlaka, “the unqualified entity, God”)
• حقیقت مقیده (hakikat-i mukayyide, “a qualified entity, a creature of God”)
• حقیقت پرست (hakikat-perest, “truth lover”)
• حقیقتسز (hakikatsiz, “false, insincere”)
• حقیقتلو (hakikatli, “true in friendship”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hakikat

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “حقیقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 660
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hakikat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1841
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “hakikat”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 374
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حقیقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 513
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Veritas”, 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 1739
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “حقیقة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1788
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hakikat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “حقیقت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 796

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ha.qiː.ˈqat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.qiː.qát̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.qiː.qát̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qiː.qát̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.qi.qát̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.ʁiː.ʁǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.qi.qát̪]

• Rhymes: -at

Readings
Classical reading?	haqīqat
Dari reading?	haqīqat
Iranian reading?	haġiġat
Tajik reading?	haqiqat

Noun

Dari	حقیقت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҳақиқат

حقیقت • (haqīqat / haġiġat) (plural حقیقت‌ها (haqīqat-hā / haġiġat-hâ), or حقایق, Tajik spelling ҳақиқат)

1. fact
2. truth
3. reality

Related terms

• حقیقی (haqiqi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: həqiqət
• → Bashkir: хәҡиҡәт (xəqiqət)
• → Bengali: হকিকত (hokikot)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: हक़ीक़त (haqīqat)

  Urdu: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)

• → Indonesian: hakikat
• → Kazakh: ақиқат (aqiqat)
• → Kyrgyz: акыйкат (akıykat)
• → Malay: hakikat
• → Tausug: hakīkat
• → Turkish: hakikat
• → Turkmen: hakykat
• → Uzbek: haqiqat

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَقِیقَت (haqīqat), from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa). Related to حَق (haq).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.qiː.qət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

Noun

حَقِیقَت • (haqīqat) f (formal plural حَقَائِق (haqāiq), Hindi spelling हक़ीक़त)

1. truth
2. fact; reality
3. essence; gist

Declension

Declension of حقیقت

	singular	plural
direct	حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)	حَقِیقَتیں (haqīqatẽ)
oblique	حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)	حَقِیقَتوں (haqīqatõ)
vocative	حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)	حَقِیقَتو (haqīqato)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884), “حقيقت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “حقیقت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حقیقت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.