ولاية

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
و ل ي (w-l-y)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.laː.ja/

Noun

وِلَايَة • (wilāya) f (plural وِلَايَات (wilāyāt))

1. verbal noun of وَلِيَ (waliya) (form I)
2. (countable) province, governorate
3. (countable) state (“political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy”)
4. (uncountable) authority
5. (Shiite Islam) the religious authority of the chosen imams (whose acceptance is the fundamental dogma of Shiism)

   Synonym: (roughly) إمامة (ʔimāma)

Declension

Declension of noun وِلَايَة (wilāya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وِلَايَة wilāya	الْوِلَايَة al-wilāya	وِلَايَة wilāyat
Nominative	وِلَايَةٌ wilāyatun	الْوِلَايَةُ al-wilāyatu	وِلَايَةُ wilāyatu
Accusative	وِلَايَةً wilāyatan	الْوِلَايَةَ al-wilāyata	وِلَايَةَ wilāyata
Genitive	وِلَايَةٍ wilāyatin	الْوِلَايَةِ al-wilāyati	وِلَايَةِ wilāyati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وِلَايَتَيْن wilāyatayn	الْوِلَايَتَيْن al-wilāyatayn	وِلَايَتَيْ wilāyatay
Nominative	وِلَايَتَانِ wilāyatāni	الْوِلَايَتَانِ al-wilāyatāni	وِلَايَتَا wilāyatā
Accusative	وِلَايَتَيْنِ wilāyatayni	الْوِلَايَتَيْنِ al-wilāyatayni	وِلَايَتَيْ wilāyatay
Genitive	وِلَايَتَيْنِ wilāyatayni	الْوِلَايَتَيْنِ al-wilāyatayni	وِلَايَتَيْ wilāyatay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وِلَايَات wilāyāt	الْوِلَايَات al-wilāyāt	وِلَايَات wilāyāt
Nominative	وِلَايَاتٌ wilāyātun	الْوِلَايَاتُ al-wilāyātu	وِلَايَاتُ wilāyātu
Accusative	وِلَايَاتٍ wilāyātin	الْوِلَايَاتِ al-wilāyāti	وِلَايَاتِ wilāyāti
Genitive	وِلَايَاتٍ wilāyātin	الْوِلَايَاتِ al-wilāyāti	وِلَايَاتِ wilāyāti

Derived terms

• اَلْوِلَايَاتُ الْمُتَّحِدَةُ الْأَمْرِيكِيَّةُ (al-wilāyātu l-muttaḥidatu l-ʔamrīkiyyatu, “United States of America”, proper noun)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: vilayət
• → Catalan: wilaya
• → English: wilayah
• → French: wilaya
• → German: Wilaya
• → Malay: wilayah
  • Indonesian: wilayah
• → Persian: ولایت
  • → Assamese: বিলাত (bilat)
  • → Bengali: বিলাত (bilat), বিলেত (bilet)
  • → Gujarati: વિલાયત (vilāyat)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: विलायत (vilāyat)

    Urdu: وِلَایَت (vilāyat)

    • → Burmese: ဘိလပ် (bhi.lap)
      • → Mon: ဗဳလာတ် (pìlàt)
    • → English: Blighty

• → Kazakh:

  Cyrillic script: уәлаят (uälaät)

  Latin script: uälaiat

  Arabic script: ٴۋالايات

• → Kyrgyz: ылаят (ılayat)
• → Marathi: विलायत (vilāyat)
• → Odia: ବିଲାତ (bilatô)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ولایت (vilayet)
  • Turkish: vilayet
  • → Albanian: vilajet
  • → Armenian: վիլայեթ (vilayetʻ)
  • → Dutch: vilajet
  • → English: vilayet
  • → French: vilayet
  • → German: Wilajet
  • → Hungarian: vilajet
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਵਲਾਇਤ (valāita)

  Shahmukhi script: وَلایت (valāyt)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: وِلائِتُ

  Devanagari script: विलाइत

• → Thai: วิลาด (wí-lâat), วิลาศ (wí-lâat)
• → Turkmen:

  Latin script: welaýat

  Cyrillic script: велаят

→ Spanish: wilaya

→ Swahili: Ulaya

• → Chichewa: Ulaya

→ Swahili: wilaya

→ Uyghur: ۋىلايەت (wilayet)

→ Uzbek: viloyat

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ولي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Root
و ل ي (w-l-y)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.laː.ja/

Noun

وَلَايَة • (walāya) f

1. verbal noun of وَلِيَ (waliya) (form I)
2. (uncountable) authority
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:44:

     هُنَالِكَ الْوَلايَةُ لِلَّهِ الْحَقِّ

     hunālika al-walāyatu li-llahi l-ḥaqqi

     There the authority is for God, the Truth.

Declension

Declension of noun وَلَايَة (walāya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	وَلَايَة walāya	الْوَلَايَة al-walāya	وَلَايَة walāyat
Nominative	وَلَايَةٌ walāyatun	الْوَلَايَةُ al-walāyatu	وَلَايَةُ walāyatu
Accusative	وَلَايَةً walāyatan	الْوَلَايَةَ al-walāyata	وَلَايَةَ walāyata
Genitive	وَلَايَةٍ walāyatin	الْوَلَايَةِ al-walāyati	وَلَايَةِ walāyati

South Levantine Arabic

Root
و ل ي
1 term

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.laː.je/, [wiˈlæː.je]
• IPA^(key): /wi.laː.ja/, [wiˈlæː.ja]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

  (file)

Noun

ولاية • (wilāye) f (plural ولايات (wilāyāt))

1. state, province

Derived terms

• الولايات المتحدة (il-wilāyāt il-muttaḥide, “the United States”)