muddat
Muddat is a term used in several languages of South and West Asia to denote a period, duration, or fixed term. The word is derived from the Arabic مدة (mudda), meaning "duration" or "interval," and entered Persian, Urdu, Hindi and Turkish (müddet) through historical linguistic contact.
In everyday speech, muddat commonly refers to an interval of time, often implying a significant or unspecified
Muddat also has formal and legal uses. In statutory, contractual, and administrative contexts it denotes a fixed
Related concepts include duration, deadline, tenure, and statute of limitations. Because the word is a general