# دقت
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

دقت (diqqət) (definite accusative دقتی (diqqəti), plural دقتلر (diqqətlər))
* Arabic spelling of diqqət (“attention”)

#### Declension
## Moroccan Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duqt/

### Verb

دقت • (duqt)
* first-person singular past of داق (dāq)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِقَّة (diqqa, “accuracy, precision”).

### Noun

دقت • (dikkât) (definite accusative دقتی (dikkati), plural دقتلر (dikkatler))
* attention, care, heed, regard, consideration, any action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something
    Synonyms: التفات (iltifât), بال (bâl)

#### Derived terms

* دقت ایتمك (dikkat etmek, “to pay attention”)
* دقت نظر (dikkat-i nazar, “careful inspection”)
* دقتسز (dikkatsiz, “inattentive, careless”)
* دقتلو (dikkatli, “attentive, careful”)
* نظر دقته آلمق (nazar dikkate almak, “to take in consideration”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: dikkat
* → Albanian: dikat
* → Armenian: տիքքաթ (tikʻkʻatʻ)

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 744
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dikkat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1216
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “dikkat”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 218
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دقت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 575
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Diligentia”, 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 393
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دقت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2101-2102
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dikkat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دقت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 907

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِقَّة (diqqa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [diq.ˈqat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɪq.qǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɪq.qǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɪq.qǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪iq.qǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪eʁ.ɢǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪iq.qǽt̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

دِقَّت • (deqqat)
* accuracy
* care, attention
    لطفا این متن را به دقت بخوانید. (more literary)lotfan in matn-râ be deqqat be-xânid.
    لطفا این متن و به دقت بخونین. (more colloquial)lotfan in matn-o be deqqat be-xunin.Please read this text carefully.

#### Derived terms

* دِقَّت کَردَن (deqqat kardan)
* دِقَّت گِرِفتَن (deqqat gereftan)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دِقَّت (diqqat, “accuracy; attention”), itself from Arabic دِقَّة (diqqa).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɪq.qət̪/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ət̪

### Noun

دِقَّت • (diqqat) f (Hindi spelling दिक़्क़त)
* (now chiefly Karachi, India) difficulty, problem, trouble
    Synonyms: مُشْکِل (muśkil), مُصِیبَت (muṣībat), پَریشانی (pareśānī), مسئلہ (mas'ala)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “دقت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “دقت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دقت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.