وقت

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

وقت (waqt) m

1. time

• → Kabyle: lweqt

Root
و ق ت (w q t)
9 terms

Possibly, via dissimilation of emphatic consonants, from the root و ق ط (w-q-ṭ), akin to rare Classical Arabic وَقْط (waqṭ) & وَقِيطَة (waqīṭa) “hollow in a rock or mountain where rainwater collects”, dialectal Yemeni Arabic وَقَّطَ (waqqaṭa) “to cut down, break off stones”, Minaean 𐩥𐩤𐩷 (wqṭ, “cavity”), Sabaean 𐩥𐩤𐩷 (wqṭ), 𐩺𐩤𐩷 (yqṭ, “to dig up, excavate; to hollow out”), Dadanitic 𐪅𐪄𐪗 (wqṭ, “to inscribe, write”); all of these ultimately from the same biliteral Proto-Semitic root *q-ṭ emblematically represented by Arabic قَطَّ (qaṭṭa) “to cut, to carve”. The “time” sense would develop from a more original meaning of “hollow”, then “gap”, interpreted figuratively as “period or gap of time”—cf. وَقْت (waqt) in the rarely attested sense of “A space, or measure, of local extension”, perhaps a remnant of the would-be original non-temporal meaning.

Alternatively, suggested to be borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaktás (“distributed, allotted; lot, share”),^[1] although this etymology has some difficulties on phonological, semantic, and geographical grounds. If correct, that makes it a doublet of بَخْت (baḵt, “luck”) which was borrowed later. Compare other supposedly borrowed time terms: زَمَن (zaman), سَاعَة (sāʕa), عَام (ʕām), سَوْفَ (sawfa), أَوَان (ʔawān), إِبَّان (ʔibbān).

• IPA^(key): /waqt/
  • (Egyptian) IPA^(key): /waʔt/
  • (Gulf) IPA^(key): /wakt/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): /waɡt/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /waqt/

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وَقْت • (waqt) m (plural أَوْقَات (ʔawqāt))

1. verbal noun of وَقَتَ (waqata) (form I)
2. time (as an abstract concept)
3. period of time, time span
4. moment, instant

Denominal verb of وَقْت (waqt).

• IPA^(key): /waq.qa.ta/

وَقَتَ • (waqata) I (non-past يَقِتُ (yaqitu), verbal noun وَقْت (waqt))^[2]

1. to determine, define, or place a limit on a thing especially time
2. to fix boundaries of duration, to set or appoint a time for something to occur especially the falling due of an obligation

وَقَّتَ • (waqqata) II (non-past يُوَقِّتُ (yuwaqqitu), verbal noun تَوْقِيت (tawqīt))

1. to set a time, to appoint a time, to fix a time, to schedule
2. to time
3. to set a time limit

• أَقَّتَ (ʔaqqata)

وَقَتْ • (waqat) (form I) /wa.qat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of وَقَى (waqā)

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

وقت • (waʾt) m (plural أوقات (ʾawʾāt))

1. time

Root
و ق ت
2 terms

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

• IPA^(key): /waɡt/

وقت • (wagt) m (plural أوقات (ʔawgāt))

1. time (as an abstract concept)
2. period of time, time span
3. moment, instant

From Arabic وَقَّتَ (waqqata).

• IPA^(key): /waɡ.ɡat/

وَقَّت • (waggat) II (non-past يِوَقِّت (yiwaggit))

1. to set a time, to appoint a time, to fix a time, to schedule
2. to time
3. to set a time limit

Conjugation of وقت (waggat)
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	وقتّ (waggatt)	وقتّ (waggatt)	وقت (waggat)		وقتنا (waggatna)	وقتّوا (waggattu)	وقتوا (waggatu)
	f		وقتّي (waggatti)	وقتت (waggatat)
non-past	m	أوقت (ʔawaggit)	توقت (tiwaggit)	يوقت (yiwaggit)		نوقت (niwaggit)	توقتوا (tiwaggitu)	يوقتوا (yiwaggitu)
	f		توقتي (tiwaggiti)	توقت (tiwaggit)
imperative	m		وقت (waggit)				وقتوا (waggitu)
	f		وقتي (waggiti)

وَقت (vaqt) (definite accusative وَقتؽ, plural وَقتلار)

1. Arabic spelling of vaqt (“time”)

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

وقت • (vakıt)

1. time
2. hour

• Turkish: vakit
• → Albanian: vakt
• → Armenian: վախտ (vaxt)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: вакат

  Latin script: vakat

• وخت (vaxt) (conversational)

Borrowed from Arabic وَقْت (waqt), itself suggested to be borrowed by Arabic from Iranic, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”).^[1]

Readings
Classical reading?	waqt
Dari reading?	waqt
Iranian reading?	vağt
Tajik reading?	vaqt

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Dari	وقت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	вақт

وقت • (vaqt) (plural وقت‌ها (vaqt-hâ) or اوقات (owqât))

1. time

   برای خواندن همه این کتاب‌ها وقت ندارم.

   barâ-ye xândan-e hame-ye in ketâb-hâ vaqt na-dâram.

   I do not have time to read all of these books.

   • 2023 October 1, “چرا تنهاییم و با تنهایی چه کنیم؟”, in bbc.com/persian‎^[1], BBC Persian:

     تنهایی، موضوعی است که کمتر مطرح می‌‌شود و بیشتر اوقات درباره آن بحث و گفتگو نمی‌کنیم.

     tanhâyi, mowzu'i ast ke kamtar matrah mi-šavad va bištar-e owqât darbâre-ye ân bahs va goftogu ne-mi-konim.

     Loneliness is a topic which is rarely brought forth, and most of the time, we do not discuss or make conversation about it.

2. hour

Root
و ق ت
1 term

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

• IPA^(key): (Urban) /waʔt/, [waʔ(ɪ)t]
• IPA^(key): (Bedouin) /waɡt/, [waɡ(ɪ)t]

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وقت • (waʔt) m (plural أوقات (ʔawʔāt))

1. time

• زمان (zamān, “time, era”)
• مرّة (marra, “time, instance”)
• فترة (fatra, “period of time, while”)
• مدّة (mudde, “period of time, while”)

Borrowed from Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

وَقْت • (vaqt) m (formal plural اَوقات (auqāt), Hindi spelling वक़्त)

1. time