اقلیم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِقْلِيم (ʔiqlīm), from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪq.liːm]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪq.liːm]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔiq.lim]

Readings
Classical reading? iqlīm
Dari reading? iqlīm
Iranian reading? eğlim
Tajik reading? iqlim

Noun
Dari اقلیم
Iranian Persian
Tajik иқлим

اِقْلِیم • (iqlīm)

  1. climate

Derived terms
  • هَفْت اِقْلِیم (haft iqlīm, “the seven-realms”)

Descendants
  • → Urdu: اِقْلِیم (iqlīm)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِقْلِیم (iqlīm), from Arabic إِقْلِيم (ʔiqlīm), from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِقْلِیم • (iqlīm) f (Hindi spelling इक़्लीम)

  1. continent
  2. realm, region; clime
  3. (archaic) country, dominion
  4. a part of the body

Derived terms
  • ہَفْت اِقْلِیم (haft iqlīm, “the seven-realms”)

See also

References
  • “اقلیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اقلیم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • “اقلیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “اقلیم”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “اقلیم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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