جنت

See also: جنب, خنب, حنت, and خنت

Arabic

Verb

جنت (form I)

1. جَنَّتْ (jannat) /d͡ʒan.nat/: third-person feminine singular past active of جَنَّ (janna)
2. جُنَّتْ (junnat) /d͡ʒun.nat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of جَنَّ (janna) and جُنَّ (junna)

Baluchi

Etymology

From Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جنت • (jannat)

1. paradise, heaven

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jannat), from Arabic جَنَّة (janna, “paradise”).

Noun

جنت • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennat))

1. (originally) garden, park, any outdoor, luxuriant area where plants are grown for ornamental purposes

   Synonyms: باغ (bağ), باغچه (bağçe), فردوس (firdevs)

2. (religion) Heaven, paradise, the abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location

   Synonyms: اوچماق (uçmak), فردوس (firdevs)

Derived terms

• جنت اعمال (cennet-i aʼmal, “paradise of senses”)
• جنت روح (cennet-i ruh, “spiritual heaven”)
• جنت قلب (cennet-i kalb, “spiritual heaven”)
• جنت قوشی (cennet kuşu, “bird-of-paradise”)
• جنت نفس (cennet-i nefs, “paradise of senses”)
• جنتلك (cennetlik, “worthy of paradise, pious”)
• جنتلی (cennetli, “who has attained paradise by his piety; deceased; great in memory”)
• جنتمكان (cennetmekân, “situated in paradise; deceased”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: cennet
• → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
• → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет

  Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cennet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 777
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Paradisus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cennet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jinnat), from Arabic جِنَّة (jinna, “madness, craziness”).

Noun

جنت • (cinnet)

1. madness, craziness, insanity, lunacy, the state of being mad, crazy, or insane

   Synonyms: دلیلك (delilik), دیوانه‌لك (divânelik), مجنونلق (mecnunluk), مجنونیت (mecnuniyet)

Descendants

• Turkish: cinnet

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cinnet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 822
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insania”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, columns 821-822
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cinnet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒan.ˈnat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæn.nǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jannat
Dari reading?	jannat
Iranian reading?	jannat
Tajik reading?	jannat

Noun

Dari	جنت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷаннат

جَنَّت • (jannat)

1. paradise

   Synonym: بِهِشْت (behešt)

2. heaven

   Synonyms: آسْمان (āsmān), عرش (arš)

Descendants

• Dari: جَنَّت (jannat)
• Iranian Persian: جَنَّت (jannat)
• Tajik: ҷаннат (jannat)
• → Azerbaijani: cənnət
• → Baluchi: جنت (jannat)
• → Bengali: জান্নাত (jannat)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: جەننەت (jennet)
  • Uzbek: jannat
• → Gujarati: જન્નત (jannat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जन्नत (jannat)

  Urdu: جَنَّت (jannat)

• → Kazakh: жәннат (jännat)
• → Marathi: जन्नत (jannat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جنت (cennet)
  • Turkish: cennet
  • → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
  • → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет

    Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

• → Pashto: جنت (ǰanát)
• → Turkmen: jennet

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jannat), from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒən.nət̪/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: جَنْ‧نَت

Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)

1. heaven, paradise

Declension

Declension of جنت
	singular	plural
direct	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتیں (jannatẽ)
oblique	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتوں (jannatõ)
vocative	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتو (jannato)

References

• “جنت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جنت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu جنت (jannat).

Noun

جنت (jannat)

1. heaven, paradise