different between vilayet vs sanjak

English

Alternative forms

• vilayat
• velayat

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??????, from Arabic ????????? (wil?ya).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vilayet (plural vilayets)

1. One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

Translations

References

French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??????, from Arabic ????????? (wil?ya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.la.j?/

Noun

vilayet m (plural vilayets)

1. vilayet

References

• “vilayet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??????, from Arabic ????????? (wil?ya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vila?j?t]
• Hyphenation: vi?la?jet

Noun

vilayet (definite accusative vilayeti, plural vilayetler)

1. vilayet

Declension

Related terms

• eyalet
• wilayah

English

Alternative forms

• zanzack [17th c.]

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sancâk, “subdivision of a vilayet”, literally “flag”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sand?ak/

Noun

sanjak (plural sanjaks)

1. An administrative region under the Ottoman Empire, a subdivision of a vilayet. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete) The governor of a sanjak; a sanjakbeg. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 45:

     the Duke [...] enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe, with the losse of five or six thousand, with the Bashaw of Buda, and foure or five Zanzacks, with divers other great Commanders, two hundred Prisoners, and nine peeces of Ordnance.

Related terms

• sanjakbeg

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Janaks

Acehnese

Etymology

Derived from Arabic ?????? (saj?, “rhymed prose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa??a?/

Noun

sanjak

1. a kind of verse used in national Acehnese poetry

References

• Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.