ملت

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English malt.

Alternative forms

• مَالْت (mālt)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɒlt/ (i.e., as in English)

Noun

مَلْت • (malt) m

1. (nonstandard) malt

Usage notes

The most usual way to refer to malt is by referring to the superordinate concept شَعِير (šaʕīr, “barley”).

Declension

Declension of noun مَلْت (malt)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْت malt	الْمَلْت al-malt	مَلْت malt
Nominative	مَلْتٌ maltun	الْمَلْتُ al-maltu	مَلْتُ maltu
Accusative	مَلْتًا maltan	الْمَلْتَ al-malta	مَلْتَ malta
Genitive	مَلْتٍ maltin	الْمَلْتِ al-malti	مَلْتِ malti

Etymology 2

Verb

ملت (form I)

1. مِلْتُ (miltu) /mil.tu/: first-person singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
2. مِلْتَ (milta) /mil.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)
3. مِلْتِ (milti) /mil.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active/passive of مَالَ (māla)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Noun

ملت • (millet)

1. nation, people
   • 1921 February 7, Cerîde-i Resmiyye #1, Teşkilât-ı Esâsiyye Kânûnu:

     ماده ۱ - حاكمیت بلا قیدوشرط ملتكدر.

     Madde 1 - Hakimiyet bilakayduşart milletiñdir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. religious community

Derived terms

• ملتجه (milletce)

Related terms

• ملی (millî)

Descendants

• Turkish: millet
• → Abaza: амилаҭ
• → Albanian: milet
• → Bulgarian: миле́т (milét)
• → English: millet
• → Macedonian: милет (milet)
• → Serbo-Croatian: mìlet / мѝлет

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Noun

ملت • (millát) m

1. nation

Related terms

• ملي (millí, “national”)
• مليت (milliyát, “nationality”)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mil.ˈlat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪl.lǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɪl.lǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪl.lǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mil.lǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mel.lǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mil.lǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	millat
Dari reading?	millat
Iranian reading?	mellat
Tajik reading?	millat

Noun

Dari	ملت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	миллат

مِلَّت • (mellat) (plural ملل (melal) or ملت‌ها (mellat-hâ))

1. nation, people
2. (archaic) religious community
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3504:

     که از آن سو جمله‌‌ی ملت یکی ست
     صد هزاران سال و یک ساعت یکی ست

     ki az ân su jumla-i-millat yaki-st
     sad hazaran sâl u yak sâ'at yaki-st

     For beyond (the realm of contraries) all religion is one:
     hundreds of thousands of years are the same as a single hour.

Related terms

• ملی (melli, “national”)

Descendants

• → Bengali: মিল্লত (millot)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मिल्लत (millat)

  Urdu: مِلَّت (millat)

• → Punjabi:
  • Shahmukhi script: مِلَّت (millat)
• → Sindhi: ملت