# انقلاب
## Arabic
### Etymology

Verbal noun of اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in.qi.laːb/
* Rhymes: -aːb

### Noun

اِنْقِلَاب • (inqilāb) m (plural اِنْقِلَابَات (inqilābāt))
* (uncountable) verbal noun of اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba) (form VII)
* coup d'état
* revolution
* solstice

#### Derived terms

* اِنْقِلَابِيّ (inqilābiyy)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: inqilab
* → Chagatai: انقلاب
** Uyghur: ئېنقىلاب (ënqilab)
** Uzbek: inqilob
* → Ottoman Turkish: انقلاب (inḳılâb)
** Turkish: inkılap
** Crimean Tatar: inqilâp
* → Classical Persian: اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb)
** Dari: اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb)
** Iranian Persian: اِنْقِلَاب (enğelâb)
** Tajik: инқилоб (inqilob)
** → Bengali: ইনকিলাব (inkilab)
** → Gujarati: ઈંકલાબ (ī̃kalāb), ઇન્કલાબ (inkalāb)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: इंक़लाब (inqalāb), इन्क़लाब (inqalāb), इन्कलाब (inkalāb), इंकलाब (iṅklāb), इंकिलाब (iṅkilāb), इंक़िलाब (iṅqilāb), इन्किलाब (inkilāb), इन्क़िलाब (inqilāb)
    Urdu: اِنْقَلَاب (inqalāb)
** → Punjabi: اِنْقِلاب (īnqilāb)
** → Pashto: انقلاب
* → Tatar: инкыйлаб (inkıylab)
* → Turkmen: ynkylap

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /in.ɡi.laːb/, [ɪŋ.ɡɪ.ˈlaːb], [ɪŋ.qɪ.ˈlaːb]

### Noun

اِنْقِلاب • (ingilāb) m (plural اِنْقِلابات (ingilābāt))
* coup d'état
* revolution

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

### Noun

انقلاب • (inḳılâb)
* a being turned back or around; reversion; inversion; diversion
* a changing; change; revolution
* (archaic) radical

#### Descendants

* Turkish: inkılap
* Crimean Tatar: inqilâp

### Further reading

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انقلاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 227

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔin.qi.lɑːβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɪɴ.qɪ.lɑːb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɪɴ.qɪ.lɑːb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔɪɴ.qɪ.lɑːb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔiɴ.qi.lɔːb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔeɴ.ɢe.lɒːb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔiɴ.qi.lɔb]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

انقلاب • (enqelâb) (plural انقلابات (enqelâbât) or انقلاب‌ها (enqelâb-hâ))
* change
* revolution
    Synonym: رولوسیون (revolusyon)
    انقلاب اسلامی ― enqelâb-e eslâmi ― the Islamic revolution of 1979, i.e. the Iranian Revolution
    قبل از انقلاب ― qabl az enqelâb ― before the revolution
    پس از انقلاب ― pas az enqelâb ― after the revolution

#### Derived terms

* انقلابی (enqelâbi)

#### Descendants

* Dari: اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb)
* Iranian Persian: اِنْقِلَاب (enğelâb)
* Tajik: инқилоб (inqilob)
* → Bengali: ইনকিলাব (inkilab)
* → Gujarati: ઈંકલાબ (ī̃kalāb), ઇન્કલાબ (inkalāb)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: इंक़लाब (inqalāb), इन्क़लाब (inqalāb), इन्कलाब (inkalāb), इंकलाब (iṅklāb), इंकिलाब (iṅkilāb), इंक़िलाब (iṅqilāb), इन्किलाब (inkilāb), इन्क़िलाब (inqilāb)
    Urdu: اِنْقَلَاب (inqalāb)
* → Punjabi: اِنْقِلاب (īnqilāb)
* → Pashto: انقلاب

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb), from Arabic اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɪn.qɪ.lɑːb/, /ɪn.qə.lɑːb/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːb

### Noun

اِنْقِلاب or اِنْقَلاب • (inqilāb or inqalāb) m (formal plural انقلابات, Hindi spelling इंक़लाब or इंक़िलाब)
* revolution
* coup d'état

#### Declension
### References

* “انقلاب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “انقلاب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.