عدالت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَدَالَة (ʕadāla, “justice, equity, fairness”).

Noun

عدالت • (ʼadalet) (definite accusative عدالتی (ʼadaleti), plural عدالتلر (ʼadaletler))

1. justice, equity, fairness, impartiality, the state or characteristic of being just or fair

   Synonyms: انصاف (insaf), عدل (ʼadl), قسط (kıst)

Derived terms

• عدالت ایتمك (ʼadalet etmek, “to act with justice”)
• عدالتسز (ʼadaletsiz, “unjust”)
• عدالتكار (ʼadaletkâr, “just”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: adalet
• → Laz: ადალეთი (adaleti)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “adalet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 108
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “adâlet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 10
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عدالت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 840
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Justitia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 890
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عدالت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3227
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “adalet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عدالت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1288

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عدالت ('adālat), in turn from Arabic عَدَالَة (ʕadāla).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.d̪ɑː.lət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: عَ‧دا‧لَت

Noun

عَدالَت • ('adālat) f (Hindi spelling अदालत)

1. court; courtroom

   Synonym: داد گاہ (dād-gāh)

2. justice