علاقہ

Borrowed from Urdu عِلاقَہ ('ilāqa).

• Tone class: LH
• IPA^(key): /ə̀làːqá/

علاقہ (älāqa) m

1. valley, area

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997), “älāqa”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[1], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 78

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَلَاقَه (alāqa), borrowed from Arabic عَلَاقَة (ʕalāqa). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi علاقہ ('laqh).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ɪ.lɑː.qɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: عِ‧لا‧قَہ

عِلاقَہ • ('ilāqa) m (formal plural عَلائِق ('alāiq) or عِلَاقَہ جَات ('ilāqa jāt) (irregular), Hindi spelling इलाक़ा)

1. area (ie. locality; jurisdiction)

   Synonyms: اَنْچَل (ancal), زون (zon)

2. (by extension):
   1. part
   2. department
3. (mathematics) area (of a shape)
4. affinity; connection
5. living (ie. earning; employment)