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, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, 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)

• → Bengali: মোলাকাত (mōlakat)
• → 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/

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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 (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ملاقات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ملاقات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.