حیات

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See also: حياة and حيات

Azerbaijani

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Noun

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حیات

  1. Arabic spelling of həyat

Old Hindi

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Noun

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حیات (ḥyatf (Middle Hindi)

  1. life
  2. soul

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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Dari حیات
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳаёт

حیات (hayât)

  1. life
    Synonyms: زندگانی (zendegâni), زندگی (zendegi)
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Punjabi

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Etymology

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

Noun

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حیات (hayātf (Gurmukhi spelling ਹਯਾਤ)

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

Urdu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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حَیَات (hayāt) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling हयात)

  1. (chiefly India, Karachi, polite) alive
    Synonyms: زِنْدَہ (zinda), مَوجُود (maujūd)

Noun

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حَیَات (hayātf (Hindi spelling हयात) (formal)

  1. life, lifetime
    Synonyms: جِیوَن (jīvan), زِنْدَگِی (zindagī)
    Antonym: مَمات (mamāt)

Declension

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    Declension of حیات
singular plural
direct حَیَات (hayāt) حَیَات (hayāt)
oblique حَیَات (hayāt) حَیَاتوں (hayātō̃)
vocative حَیَات (hayāt) حَیَاتو (hayātō)

Further reading

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  • 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, 2024.
  • 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
  • S. W. Fallon (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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC