دعوت

Arabic

Verb

دَعَوْتُ • (daʕawtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

Verb

دَعَوْتَ • (daʕawta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

Verb

دَعَوْتِ • (daʕawti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

Gujarati

Proper noun

دعوت • (dāvat) n (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. Alternative form of دعوۃ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Noun

دعوت • (da'vet or davet)

1. invitation; call
2. (law) summons

Descendants

• Turkish: davet

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “davet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 574a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “davet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [daʔ.wat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.wät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.wät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑː.wät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔː.wät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æʔ.væt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.vät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	da'wat
Dari reading?	da'wat
Iranian reading?	da'vat
Tajik reading?	daʾvat

Noun

Dari	دعوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	даъват

دَعوَت • (da'vat)

1. invitation, call (to a religion, etc.)

   ما را برای شام دعوت کردند. (more literary)

   mâ-râ barâ-ye šâm da'vat kardand.

   برای شام دعوتمون کردن. (colloquial)

   barâ-ye šâm da'vat-emun kardan.

   They invited us for dinner.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 843:

     دعوت دین کن که دعوت واردست

     da'vat-e din kon ke da'vat vâred-ast

     Call [him] to the [true] religion, for the [command to] call hath come down [from God].

2. convivial meeting

Derived terms

(verbs)

• دعوت شدن (da'vat šodan)
• دعوت کردن (da'vat kardan)

 

(others)

• دعوتنامه (da'vatnâme)

 

Descendants

• → Gujarati: દાવત (dāvat)
• → Hindustani: dāvat

  Hindi: दावत

  Urdu: دَعْوَت (da'vat)

  • → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
  • → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

• → Marwari: दावत (dāvat)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਵਤ (dāvat), ਦਾਅਵਤ (dāavat), ਦਾਹਵਤ (dāhvat)

  Shahmukhi script: دَعْوَت (daʻvat)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: دَعَوَتَ

  Devanagari script: दावत

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دعوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دعوت (da'vat), itself from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.(ʔ)ʋət̪/, /d̪ɑː.ʋət̪/, /-wət̪/

• Audio (PK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: دَع‧وَت

Noun

دَعْوَت • (da'vat) f (Hindi spelling दावत)

1. invitation
2. invite, request (to join a movement, or purpose)
3. feast, dinner, banquet
4. invitation, call (to faith; religion)
5. incantation, invocation

Declension

Declension of دعوت
	singular	plural
direct	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتیں (daʻvatẽ)
oblique	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتوں (daʻvatõ)
vocative	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتو (daʻvato)

Descendants

• → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
• → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

Further reading

• “دعوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دعوت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دعوت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu دعوت (da'vat).

Noun

دعوت (da'vat)

1. a feast of food