صلاحیت

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya). Compare Persian صلاحیت (salâhiyyat, authority).

Noun

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صلاحیت (salahiyet)

  1. power, authority, right
  2. competence, skill, capacity

Descendants

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  • Turkish: salahiyet

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صلاحیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salahiyet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya). By surface analysis, صلاح (salâh) +‎ ـیت (-iyyat).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? salāhiyyat
Dari reading? salāhiyat
Iranian reading? salâhiyyat
Tajik reading? salohiyat

Noun

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Dari صلاحیت
Iranian Persian
Tajik салоҳият

صلاحیت (salâhiyyat)

  1. competence; qualification; rectitude
  2. probity; rectitude

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian صَلَاحِیَّت (salāhiyyat), from Arabic صَلَاحِيَّة (ṣalāḥiyya). By surface analysis, صَلاح (salāh) +‎ ـِیَت (-iyat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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صَلاحِیَّت (salāhiyyatf (Hindi spelling सलाहियत)

  1. capability; capacity (to do or carry out something)
  2. a good characteristic (of someone or something)
  3. gentleness
  4. a daily logbook of accounts and passengers, by the police

Declension

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Declension of صلاحیت
singular plural
direct صَلاحِیَّت (salāhiyyat) صَلاحِیَّتیں (salāhiyyatẽ)
oblique صَلاحِیَّت (salāhiyyat) صَلاحِیَّتوں (salāhiyyatõ)
vocative صَلاحِیَّت (salāhiyyat) صَلاحِیَّتو (salāhiyyato)

Further reading

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  • صلاحیت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • صلاحیت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “صلاحيت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 745