Ehteml

Ehteml is a transliteration associated with the Persian and Urdu word احـتمـال, commonly rendered as ehtemāl or ehtemal in various transliteration schemes. In both languages, the term conveys the idea of probability, likelihood, or possibility, and it appears in everyday speech as well as formal discourse.

Etymology and transliteration are dialect-sensitive. The word is widely regarded as borrowed from Arabic, where a form such as ihtimāl expresses similar meanings related to possibility or likelihood. In Persian and Urdu, several spellings exist depending on the transliteration system, with ehtemāl, ehtemal, and ihtemāl among the common variants. The non-phonetic English rendering "ehteml" may be encountered in informal writing or data transliteration.

Usage in Persian and Urdu. In Persian, common phrases include احتمال دارد (it is probable) or احتمال وقوع دارد (the probability of occurrence). In Urdu, phrases such as احتمال ہے کہ… (it is likely that…) are standard. The term covers both everyday judgments of chance and more formal assessments of likelihood in planning or reasoning.

In mathematics and statistics, احـتمال is the standard translation of the concept of probability. The term denotes the measure of how likely an event is to occur and is used in definitions, theorems, and applications of probability theory. In Persian-language texts addressing statistics, probabilities are typically written as مقدار احتمال (probability measure) or simply احتمال.

See also: Probability, Probability theory, Persian language, Urdu language, Transliteration.