مملکت

See also: مملكت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka, “kingdom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mam.la.ˈkat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæm.le.kʰʲǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäm.lä.kʰǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	mamlakat
Dari reading?	mamlakat
Iranian reading?	mamlekat
Tajik reading?	mamlakat

Noun

Dari	مملکت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мамлакат

مملکت • (mamlekat) (plural ممالک (mamâlek) or مملکت‌ها (mamlekat-hâ))

1. country, realm
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:

     شه ممالک دردم بلا پناه منست
     غمم که بی حد و پایان بود سپاه منست

     šah-i mamālik-i dardam balā panāh-i man ast
     ğamam ki bē had u pāyān buwad sipāh-i man ast

     I am king of the realms of pain, calamity is my refuge,
     The grief that has no limit nor end is my army.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مملکت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَمْلَکَت (mamlakat), from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi مملکت (mamlakat /⁠mmlkt⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məm.lʊ.kət̪/, /məm.lə.kət̪/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [mʊm.lɪ.kət]
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: مَم‧لُ‧کَت

Noun

مَمْلُکَت or مَمْلَکَت • (mamlukat or mamlakat) f (Hindi spelling ममलकत)

1. kingdom; empire (dominion)
2. (figuratively) grandeur, magnificence

Related terms

Related terms

• صَدْرِ مَمْلِکَت (sadr-i mamlikat, “head of state”)
• مَمْلِکَتِ مُتَحِدَّہ (mamlikat-i mutahidda, “United Kingdom”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ك (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

More information

• “مملکت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مملکت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “مملکت”, 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