اجازت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِجَازَة (ʔijāza, “permission, authorization”).

Noun

اجازت • (icazet) (definite accusative اجازتی (icazeti), plural اجازتلر (icazetler))

1. permission, authorization, granting, leave, a formal consent from someone in authority

   Synonyms: اذن (izn, izin), دستور (düstur), رخصت (ruhsat), مساعده (müsâʼade)

2. diploma or doctorate given to students of a madrasah to teach and act as a professor

   Synonyms: اجازت تذكره‌سی (icazet tezkeresi), اجازتنامه (icazetname)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “icazet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2078
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “icâzet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 485
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اجازت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 51a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Licentia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 948
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اجازت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 56
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “icazet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اجازت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 26

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِجَازَه (ijāza), borrowed from Arabic إِجَازَة (ʔijāza).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪ.d͡ʒɑː.zət̪/

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: اِ‧جا‧زَت

Noun

اِجازَت • (ijāzat) f (Hindi spelling इजाज़त)

1. permission, authorisation, clearance

   وہ تمہیں اس کام کرنے کی اجازت نہیں دیں گے۔

   vo tumhẽ is kām karne kī ijāzat nahī̃ dẽ ge.

   They will not permit you to do such a thing.

2. consent
3. (formal) leave

   ہمیں اجازت دیجئے

   hamẽ ijāzat dījiye

   (With your permission) let us be on our way

   (literally, “please give us permission”)

References

• “اجازت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اجازت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.