بادشاہت

Urdu

Alternative forms

• پادْشاہَت (pādśāhat)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادشاهت (“royalty”). By surface analysis, بَادْشَاہ (bādśāh, “king, monarch”) +‎ َت (at).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑːd̪.ʃɑː.ɦət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: بادْ‧شا‧ہَت

Noun

بادْشاہَت • (bādśāhat) f (Hindi spelling बादशाहत) (chiefly historical)

1. monarchy, kingdom, sovereignty

   Synonym: راج شاہی (rāj śāhī)

2. reign; the rank or office of a badshah or padishah

   Synonyms: شاہی (śāhī), بادْشاہی (bādśāhī), راج (rāj)

3. dominion, empire, state

   Synonyms: مُمْلِکَت (mumlikat), راج (rāj), سَلْطَنَت (saltanat)

4. (religion) kingdom (ie. reign of God)

Declension

Declension of بادشاہت
	singular	plural
direct	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتیں (bādśāhatẽ)
oblique	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتوں (bādśāhatõ)
vocative	بادشاہت (bādśāhat)	بادشاہتو (bādśāhato)

Further reading

• “بادشاہت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بادشاہت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بادشاه”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 92

pg=119 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Platts, John Thompson (1884) “بادشاہت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بادشاه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 200

pg=193 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.John Shakespear (1834) “بادشاہت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC