"vilayet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: vilayets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish ولایت (vilayet, “province”), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya, “province, administration”). Doublet of wilayah. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ota|ولایت||province|tr=vilayet}} Ottoman Turkish ولایت (vilayet, “province”), {{der|en|ar|وِلَايَة||province, administration}} Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya, “province, administration”), {{doublet|en|wilayah}} Doublet of wilayah, {{root|en|ar|و ل ي}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} vilayet (plural vilayets)
  1. (politics) A province, particularly (historical) the first-level administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia link: vilayet Categories (topical): Administrative divisions, Politics Categories (place): Political subdivisions Synonyms: vilayat, velayat Hypernyms: province Coordinate_terms: sanjak, kaza, nahiyah Translations (one of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire): vilajet [masculine] (Albanian), وِلَايَة (wilāya) [feminine] (Arabic), إِيَالَة (ʔiyāla) [feminine] (Arabic), vilayət (Azerbaijani), vilajet [masculine] (Dutch), vilayet [masculine] (French), Wilajet [neuter] (German), विलायत (vilāyat) [feminine] (Hindi), vilajet (Hungarian), уәлаят (uälaät) (Kazakh), ылаят (ılayat) (Kyrgyz), vilayet (Malay), ولايت (welāyát) [masculine] (Pashto), ولایت (velâyat) (Persian), ایالت (eyâlat) (Persian), вилайе́т (vilajét) [masculine] (Russian), велая́т (velaját) [masculine] (Russian), вилоя́т (viloját) [masculine] (Russian), вила́йа (vilája) [feminine] (Russian), valiato [masculine] (Spanish), вилоят (viloyat) (Tajik), иёлат (iyolat) (Tajik), vilayet (Turkish), eyalet (Turkish), welaýat (Turkmen), ولایت (vilāyat) [feminine] (Urdu), ۋىلايەت (wilayet) (Uyghur), viloyat (Uzbek)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.