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wilayat

wilayat is the plural of wilaya.

wilayat is the alternative form of wilaya.

Meaning of wilaya

Noun

wilaya (plural wilayas or wilayat)

  1. a province or administrative division in some Arabic countries
    • The wilayas [provincial governorates] of Illizi and Adrar in the Sahara have the highest number of cultural associations for their populations, according to the ministry's figures.2017, Patrick Crowley, Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism, 1988–2015, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 104

Forms of wilayat

pluralwilayats

Origin of wilayat

Borrowed from Arabic وِلَايَات (wilāyāt).

Borrowed from Classical Persian وِلَایَت (wilāyat), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya).

Questions about wilayat

What is wilayat the plural of?
Wilayat is the plural of wilaya.

Words near wilayat in the dictionary

  1. wilamowitzianus
  2. wilaya
  3. wilayah
  4. wilayahs
  5. wilayas
  6. wilayat
  7. wilayats
  8. wilayet
  9. Wilbarger
  10. Wilbarger County
  11. wilbe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilayat (page history and authors); wilaya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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