ID 940 • Sw – • BP 276 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√WLY
1a sovereign power, sovereignty; b rule, government; — (pl. ‑āt) 2 administrative district headed by a vali, vilayet (formerly, under the Ottoman Empire), province; 3 state – WehrCowan1979.
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl vilayet, from Ar wilāyaẗ ‘province’, from ↗waliya ‘to be(come) near, adjacent, be in charge, manage, govern’.↗
► al-wilāyāt al-muttaḥidaẗ, n. pl., the United States
► wilāyaẗ al-ʕahd, n.f., succession to the throne►
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