اختيار

See also: اختیار‎

Arabic

Etymology

From the root خ ي ر‎ (ḵ-y-r).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ix.ti.jaːr/
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Noun

اِخْتِيَار • (iḵtiyār) m (plural اِخْتِيَارَات‎ (iḵtiyārāt))

(uncountable) verbal noun of اِخْتَارَ‎ (iḵtāra) (form VIII)
choice
election
(philosophy) free will

Declension

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Derived terms

اِخْتِيَارِيّ‎ (iḵtiyāriyy)

Descendants

→ Classical Persian: اختیار‎ (ixtiyâr)
- → Avar: ихтияр (ixtijar)
- → Azerbaijani: ixtiyar
- → Bashkir: ихтыяр (ixtıyar)
- → Bengali: এখতিয়ার (ekhtiẏar)
- → Chagatai: اختیار‎
  - Uyghur: ئىختىيار‎ (ixtiyar)
  - Uzbek: ixtiyor
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: इख़्तियार (ixtiyār)
  
  Urdu: اختیار‎ (ixtiyār)
- → Kazakh: ықтияр (yqtiär)
- → Kyrgyz: ыктыяр (ıktıyar)
- → Ottoman Turkish: اختیار‎ (ihtiyar)
  - Turkish: ihtiyar
- → Vaghri: અખત્યાર (akhatyār)
→ Malay: ikhtiar
- Indonesian: ikhtiar

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “اختيار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
Wehr, Hans (1979), “خير”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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