# وقت
## Algerian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

### Noun

وقت (waqt) m
* time

#### Descendants

* → Kabyle: lweqt

## Arabic
### Etymology 1

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”), 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).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waqt/
** (Egyptian) IPA: /waʔt/
** (Gulf) IPA: /wakt/
** (Hijazi) IPA: /waɡt/
** (Moroccan) IPA: /waqt/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

وَقْت • (waqt) m (plural أَوْقَات (ʔawqāt))
* verbal noun of وَقَتَ (waqata) (form I)
* time (as an abstract concept)
* period of time, time span
* moment, instant

##### Descendants

* Chadian Arabic: وكت (wakit)
* Egyptian Arabic: وقت (waʔt)
* Gulf Arabic: وكت (wəkt)
* Hijazi Arabic: وقت (wagt)
* Maltese: waqt
* Moroccan Arabic: وقت (waqt)
* → Adyghe: уахътэ (waꭓtɛ)
* → Argobba: ወቅት
* → Amharic: ወቅት (wäḳt)
* → Azerbaijani: vaxt
* → Bashkir: ваҡыт (vaqıt)
* → Bengali: ওক্ত (ōkto), ওয়াক্ত (ōẇakto)
* → Chuvash: вӑхӑт (văh̬ăt)
* → Crimean Tatar: vaqıt
* → Farefare: wakatɛ
* → Gagauz: vakıt
* → Ge'ez: ወቃት (wäḳat)
* → Gurage: ወቅት
* → Harari: ወቅቲ (wäḳti)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: वक़्त (vaqt)
    Urdu: وقت (vaqt)
* → Kanuri: lóktù
** → Hausa: lōkàcī
* → Karakalpak: waqıt
* → Kazakh: уақыт (uaqyt)
* → Khalaj: vaqt
* → Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: وەخت (wext)
    Laki: ڤەخت (vext)
    Northern Kurdish: wext
    Southern Kurdish: وەخت (wext)
* → Kyrgyz: убакыт (ubakıt), убакты (ubaktı)
* → Pévé: wůxıþs
* → Lishana Deni: ועדא (waʕda)
* → Lithuanian: voktas
* → Madurese: bâkto
* → Malay: waktu
** Indonesian: waktu
** → Ternate: waktu
* → Maore Comorian: wakati
* → Maranao: wakto
* → Ottoman Turkish: وقت (vakıt)
** Turkish: vakit
** → Albanian: vakt
** → Armenian: վախտ (vaxt)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: вакат
    Latin script: vakat
* → Pashto: وخت (waxt)
* → Persian: وقت (vaqt)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਵਕਤ (vakat)
    Shahmukhi script: وقت (vaqt)
* → Somali: waqti, wakhti
* → Sundanese: waktu, waktos
* → Swahili: wakati
* → Tajik: вақт (vaqt)
* → Tausug: waktu
* → Tatar: вакыт (waqıt)
* → Tigre: ውቀት (wəḳät), ዉቀት (wuḳät), ወቀት (wäḳät), አልውቀት (ʾälwəḳät), ወክት (wäkt), ወክድ (wäkd)
* → Turkmen: wagt
* → Uyghur: ۋاقت (waqt)
* → Uzbek: vaqt
* → Wolof: waxtu
* → Yoruba: wákàtí
* → Zazaki: wext

### Etymology 2

Denominal verb of وَقْت (waqt).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waq.qa.ta/

#### Verb

وَقَتَ • (waqata) I (non-past يَقِتُ (yaqitu), verbal noun وَقْت (waqt))
* to determine, define, or place a limit on a thing especially time
* to fix boundaries of duration, to set or appoint a time for something to occur especially the falling due of an obligation

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

وَقَّتَ • (waqqata) II (non-past يُوَقِّتُ (yuwaqqitu), verbal noun تَوْقِيت (tawqīt))
* to set a time, to appoint a time, to fix a time, to schedule
* to time
* to set a time limit

##### Alternative forms

* أَقَّتَ (ʔaqqata)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

وَقَتْ • (waqat) (form I) /wa.qat/
* third-person feminine singular past active of وَقَى (waqā)

### References

* ↑ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 2
* ↑ Wehr, Hans (1979) “وقت”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

### Noun

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

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waɡt/

#### Noun

وقت • (wagt) m (plural أوقات (ʔawgāt))
* time (as an abstract concept)
* period of time, time span
* moment, instant

### Etymology 2

From Arabic وَقَّتَ (waqqata).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /waɡ.ɡat/

#### Verb

وَقَّت • (waggat) II (non-past يِوَقِّت (yiwaggit))
* to set a time, to appoint a time, to fix a time, to schedule
* to time
* to set a time limit

##### Conjugation
## Khalaj
### Noun

وَقت (vaqt) (definite accusative وَقتؽ, plural وَقتلار)
* Arabic spelling of vaqt (“time”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

### Noun

وقت • (vakıt)
* time
* hour

#### Descendants

* Turkish: vakit
* → Albanian: vakt
* → Armenian: վախտ (vaxt)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: вакат
    Latin script: vakat

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* وخت (vaxt) (conversational)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [waqt]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wäqt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wäqt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [wäxt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [wäqt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [væxt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [væxt̪]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [væx]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [väqt̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

وقت • (vaqt) (plural وقت‌ها (vaqt-hâ) or اوقات (owqât))
* 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, 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.
* hour

#### Derived terms

* هیچ‌وقت (hič-vaqt)
* وقتی (vaqti)

### References

* ↑ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 2

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /waʔt/, [waʔ(ɪ)t]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /waɡt/, [waɡ(ɪ)t]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Noun

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

#### See also

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

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَقْت (waqt).

### Noun

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