بیعت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَيْعَة (bayʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [baj.ˈʔat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.ʔǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.ʔǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bä.jǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bä.jǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bej.ʔǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.ʔǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	bay'at
Dari reading?	bay'at
Iranian reading?	bey'at
Tajik reading?	bayʾat

Noun

Dari	بیعت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	байъат

بیعت • (bey'at)

1. allegiance

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बैअत (baiat)

  Urdu: بَیعَت (baiʻat)

• → Punjabi:
  • Shahmukhi script: بَیْعَت (baiʻat)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بیعت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic بَايَعَ (bāyaʕa)

Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa)

Arabic بَيْعَة (bayʕa)bor.

Classical Persian بَیعَت (bay'at)bor.

Urdu بَیعَت (bai'at)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَیعَت (bay'at), borrowed from Arabic بَيْعَة (bayʕa). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi بیعت (by't /⁠bai'at⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɛː.ʔət̪/, /bɛː jət̪/, /bɛːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪, -ɛːt̪
• Homophone: بیت (bait)

Noun

بَیعَت • (bai'at) f (Hindi spelling बैअत)

1. act of swearing allegiance; fealty (especially religiously)

Declension

Declension of بیعت

	singular	plural
direct	بَیعَت (bai'at)	بَیعَتیں (bai'atẽ)
oblique	بَیعَت (bai'at)	بَیعَتوں (bai'atõ)
vocative	بَیعَت (bai'at)	بَیعَتو (bai'ato)

Further reading

• “بیعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بيعت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]