# حقیقت
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa, “truth, reality”).

### Noun

حقیقت • (hakikat) (definite accusative حقیقتی (hakikati), plural حقائق (hakaʼık))
* truth, reality, veracity, verity, truthful facts, genuine depiction or statements in accord with fact or reality
    Synonyms: طوغری (doğrı), كرچك (gerçek)
* fact, actuality, something actual as opposed to invented, something which is real and demonstrable
    Synonym: كرچك (gerçek)
* essence, substance, the property or set of properties and attributes that create the identity of an entity
    Synonym: جوهر (cevher)

#### Derived terms

* حقیقةً (hakikaten, “really, for real”)
* حقیقت بین (hakikat-bîn, “whose opinion is correct”)
* حقیقت حال (hakikat-i hal, “the truth of the matter”)
* حقیقت شرعیه (hakikat-i şerʼiye, “word or thing canonically defined”)
* حقیقت شناس (hakikat şinâs, “who knows reality”)
* حقیقت عرفیه (hakikat-i ʼörfiye, “expression whose figurative meaning is accepted as literal”)
* حقیقت عقلیه (hakikat-i ʼâkliye, “expression used in the literal sense of the words”)
* حقیقت قصره (hakikat-i kasıra, “figurative expression susceptible of more meanings”)
* حقیقت كو (hakikat-gû, “telling the truth”)
* حقیقت لغویه (hakikat-i lügâviye, “expression used in the literal sense of the words”)
* حقیقت مطلقه (hakikat-i mutlaka, “the unqualified entity, God”)
* حقیقت مقیده (hakikat-i mukayyide, “a qualified entity, a creature of God”)
* حقیقت پرست (hakikat-perest, “truth lover”)
* حقیقتسز (hakikatsiz, “false, insincere”)
* حقیقتلو (hakikatli, “true in friendship”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: hakikat

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “حقیقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 660
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hakikat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1841
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hakikat”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 374
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حقیقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 513
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Veritas”, 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 1739
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حقیقة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1788
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hakikat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حقیقت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 796

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ha.qiː.ˈqat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.qiː.qǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [hä.qiː.qǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.qiː.qǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.qi.qǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [hæ.ʁiː.ʁǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [hä.qi.qǽt̪]

### Noun

| Dari | حقیقت |
| Iranian Persian | حقیقت |
| Tajik | ҳақиқат |
حَقیقَت • (haqiqat) (plural حقیقت‌ها (haqiqat-hâ) or حقایق (haqâyeq))
* fact
* truth
* reality

#### Related terms

* حقیقی (haqiqi)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: həqiqət
* → Bashkir: хәҡиҡәт (xəqiqət)
* → Bengali: হকিকত (hokikot)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: हक़ीक़त (haqīqat)
    Urdu: حَقِیقَت (haqīqat)
* → Indonesian: hakikat
* → Kazakh: ақиқат (aqiqat)
* → Kyrgyz: акыйкат (akıykat)
* → Malay: hakikat
* → Tausug: hakīkat
* → Turkish: hakikat
* → Turkmen: hakykat
* → Uzbek: haqiqat

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian حقیقت (haqīqat), from Arabic حَقِيقَة (ḥaqīqa). Related to حق (haq).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɦə.qiː.qət̪/
* Rhymes: -ət̪

### Noun

حَقِیقَت • (haqīqat) f (formal plural حقائق, Hindi spelling हक़ीक़त)
* fact
* truth
* reality

#### Declension

Declension of حقیقت :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | حقیقت (haqīqat) | حقیقتیں (haqīqatẽ) |
| oblique | حقیقت (haqīqat) | حقیقتوں (haqīqatõ) |
| vocative | حقیقت (haqīqat) | حقیقتو (haqīqato) |

### References

* Platts, John T. (1884) “حقيقت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “حقیقت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “حقیقت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.