વિલાયત

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

• (Standard Gujarati) IPA^(key): /ˈʋi.lɑ.jət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪

વિલાયત • (vilāyat) f or n

1. London, England, United Kingdom, Great Britain
2. (by extension) a foreign country, especially one in the West (historically only Europe but now North America as well as other places largely populated by people of European descent)
3. (obsolete) Turkestan (the orignal country of Turkic rulers)

• (foreign country): પરદેશ (pardeś)

• ભગવતસિંહ [bhagvatsĩh] (1944), “વિલાયત”, in ભગવદ્ગોમંડલ [bhagvadgomaṇḍal], India, page 8097.
• “વિલાયત”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.