ملاقات

Borrowed from Arabic مُلَاقَاة‎ (mulāqāh).

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ملاقات • (molâqât) (plural ملاقات‌ها‎ (molâqât-hâ))

1. meeting, appointment, encounter

   ‏ملاقات رسمی‎ ― molâqât-e rasmi ― official meeting

   ‏کی با تو ملاقات می‌کنیم؟‎‎ ― key bâ to molâqât mi-konim? ― When will we meet you?

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 1991:

     ‏کز ملاقات تو بر رستست جانش‎

     k-az molâqât-e to bar rost-ast jân-eš

     for [it is] through meeting with thee [that] his spirit has grown up in him.

• ملاقات کردن‎ (molâqât kardan)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मुलाक़ात (mulāqāt)

  Urdu: ملاقات‎ (mulāqāt)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੁਲਾਕਾਤ (mulākāt)

  Shahmukhi script: ملاقات‎ (mulāqāt)

• → Ottoman Turkish: ملاقات‎
  • Turkish: mülakat, mülâkat

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُلاقات‎, itself from Arabic مُلَاقَاة‎ (mulāqāh).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.lɑː.qɑːt̪/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /mʊ.lɑː.xɑːt̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
• Hyphenation: مُ‧لا‧قات

مُلاقات • (mulāqāt) f (Hindi spelling मुलाक़ात)

1. meeting
2. encounter

• ملاپ‎ (milāp)
• میل‎ (mel)

• “ملاقات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ملاقات”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ملاقات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.