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نیت

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic نِيَّة (niyya).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? niyyat
    Dari reading? niyat
    Iranian reading? niyat
    Tajik reading? niyat

    Noun

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    نیت • (niyyat / niyat) (plural نیت‌ها (niyyat-hā / niyat-hâ), or نیات (niyyât), Tajik spelling ният)

    1. intent, purpose

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • → Hindustani:
      Urdu: نِیَّت (niyyat)
      Hindi: नीयत (nīyat), निय्यत (niyyat)

    Further reading

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    Urdu

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    Etymology tree
    Arabic نَوَى (nawā)
    Arabic نِيَّة (niyya)bor.
    Classical Persian نِیَّت (niyyat)bor.
    Urdu نِیَّت

      Borrowed from Classical Persian نِیَّت (niyyat), borrowed from Arabic نِيَّة (niyya), from نَوَى (nawā).[1][2] First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi نیت (nyt).[3]

      Pronunciation

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      Noun

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      نِیَّت • (niyyat) f (Hindi spelling नीयत)

      1. intention, intent, purpose
      2. desire; wise
      3. (Islam) Niyyah
      4. attention

      Declension

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      Declension of نیت
      singular plural
      direct نِیَّت (niyyat) نِیَّتیں (niyyatẽ)
      oblique نِیَّت (niyyat) نِیَّتوں (niyyatõ)
      vocative نِیَّت (niyyat) نِیَّتو (niyyato)

      References

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      1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884), “نيت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1165
      2. ^ John Shakespear (1834), “نیت”, 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, page 1809
      3. ^ “نیت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading

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      • “نیت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “نيت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 655
      • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “نيت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1178

      Ushojo

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      Etymology

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      From Urdu نیت (niyyat), from Arabic نِيَّة (niyya).

      Noun

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      نیت (neyat)

      1. intention, intent, purpose
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