حیات

See also: حياة and حيات

Azerbaijani

Noun

حیات

1. Arabic spelling of həyat

Old Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیَات (hayāt), from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).

Noun

حیات (ḥyat) f (Middle Hindi)

1. life
2. soul

Descendants

• Hindustani:

  Hindi: हयात (hayāt), ह़यात (ḥayāt)

  Urdu: حَیَات (ḥayāt)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).

Pronunciation

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

 

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

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.jɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɑ́ːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɔ́ːt̪]

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

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

• Rhymes: -aːt

Readings
Classical reading?	hayāt
Dari reading?	hayāt
Iranian reading?	hayât
Tajik reading?	hayot

• Homophone: حیاط (hayât) (Iran)

Noun

حیات • (hayāt / hayât) (Tajik spelling ҳаёт)

1. life

   Synonyms: زندگانی (zindagānī / zendegâni), زندگی (zindagī / zendegi)

Derived terms

• حیاتی (hayātī / hayâti)

Descendants

• > Tajik: ҳаёт (hayot) (inherited)
• → Azerbaijani: həyat
• → Chagatai: حَیَات (ḥyāt)
  • Uyghur: ھايات (hayat)
  • Uzbek: hayot
• → Marathi: हयात (hayāt)
• → Middle Hindi: حَیَات (ḥyat /⁠ḥayāt⁠/)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: हयात (hayāt), ह़यात (ḥayāt)

    Urdu: حَیَات (ḥayāt)

• → Ottoman Turkish: حَیَات (hayât)
  • > Turkish: hayat (inherited)
  • → Albanian: hajat, ajat, ajet
  • → Crimean Tatar: ayat
• → Pashto: حَیَات (hayát)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਹਯਾਤ (hayāt), ਹਿਆਤ (hiāta)

  Shahmukhi script: حَیَات (ḥayāt)

• → Turkmen: hayat

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حیات (hayāt), from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).

Noun

حَیَات • (ḥayāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਯਾਤ or ਹਿਆਤ)

1. life

   Synonyms: زِندَگی (zindagī), جِیوَن (jīvan), جِندَڑی (jindaṛī), جان (jān)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حَیَات (hayāt), from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi حیات (ḥyat /⁠hayāt⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦə.jɑːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
• Hyphenation: حَ‧یات

Adjective

حَیَات • (hayāt) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling हयात)

1. (chiefly India, Karachi, polite) alive

   Synonyms: زِنْدَہ (zinda), مَوجُود (maujūd)

Noun

حَیَات • (hayāt) f (Hindi spelling हयात) (formal)

1. life, lifetime

   Synonyms: زِنْدَگِی (zindagī), جِیوَن (jīvan)

   Antonyms: مَرْگ (marg), مَمات (mamāt)

Declension

Declension of حیات

	singular	plural
direct	حَیَات (hayāt)	حَیَات (hayāt)
oblique	حَیَات (hayāt)	حَیَاتوں (hayātõ)
vocative	حَیَات (hayāt)	حَیَاتو (hayāto)

Further reading

• “حیات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “حیات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “حيات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “حيات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 482
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “حیات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 588
• John Shakespear (1834), “حیات”, 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