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Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka, kingdom).

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

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَمْلَکَت (mamlakat), from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi مملکت (mamlakat /⁠mmlkt⁠/).[1]

مَمْلُکَت or مَمْلَکَت (mamlukat or mamlakatf (Hindi spelling ममलकत)

  1. kingdom; empire (dominion)
  2. (figuratively) grandeur, magnificence[2]
  1. ^ مملکت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “مملکت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

More information

  • مملکت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC