اختیار

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: اختيار

Ottoman Turkish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Noun

[edit]

اختیار (ihtiyar)

  1. election

Descendants

[edit]
  • Turkish: ihtiyar

Persian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Pronunciation

[edit]
 

Readings
Classical reading? ixtiyār
Dari reading? ixtiyār
Iranian reading? extiyâr
Tajik reading? ixtiyor

Noun

[edit]
Dari اختیار
Iranian Persian
Tajik ихтиёр

اِختِیار (extiyâr) (plural اختیارات (extiyârât))

  1. option
    Synonyms: خیار (xiyâr), گزینه (gozine), انتخاب (entexâb)
  2. choice
    Synonym: انتخاب (entexâb)
  3. authority, power to choose
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 267”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1], archived from the original on 2023-12-09:
      دل به رغبت می‌سپارد جان به چشم مست یار
      گرچه هشیاران ندادند اختیار خود به کس
      dil ba rağbat mē-sipārad jān ba čašm-i mast-i yār
      garči hušyārān na-dādand ixtiyār-i xwad ba kas
      My soul joyfully entrusts my heart to the beloved's drunken eyes,
      Though the wise do not grant authority [over them] to anyone.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

[edit]

Urdu

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِخْتِیَار (ixtiyār), from Arabic اِخْتِيَار (iḵtiyār).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

اِخْتِیَار (ixtiyārm (formal plural اِخْتِیَارَات (ixtiyārāt), Hindi spelling इख़्तियार)

  1. power, authority, jurisdiction
  2. choice, adoption, control, discretion, option
  3. imprimatur

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • اختیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • اختیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اختيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.