abdest
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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (modern Turkish abdest), from Classical Persian آبْدَسْت (ābdast), compound of آب (āb, “water”) and دست (dast, “hand”).
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abdest (uncountable)
- (Islam) The Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an.
- Synonym: wudu
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- wazukhana (place where wudu is performed, South Asia)
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Islamic act of washing parts of the body — see wudu
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Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish آبدست, from Persian آبدست. First attested in 1678.[1]
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abdest m inan
- (Islam) abdest (the Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an)
- 1805, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Pisma rozmaite współczesnych wierszem i prozą. T. 3, Juliana Niemcewicza pism różnych wierszem i prozą. T. 2.[2], page 351:
- proszę cię tylko o trochę wody, żebym mogła Abdest móy zrobić, i o kątek w twoim 33 domu, żebym spokojnie mogła się modlić."
- I would like some water please, so I can do my abdest, and a corner in your thirty third house, so I could peacefully pray.
- 2016, Magdalena Rekść, “STEREOTYPY NA TEMAT WYZNAWCÓW ISLAMU NA OBSZARZE BYŁEJ JUGOSŁAWII”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3]:
- Nic więc dziwnego, że w dyskursie wyznawców religii Mahometa podkreśla się obowiązek rytuału abdestu przed każdą z pięciu codziennych modlitw.
- So it comes at no surprise that in discussions between members of Muhammad's religion put such an emphasis on the required ritual of abdest before each of the five daily prayers.
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Declension of abdest
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (âbdest), from Persian آبدست (âbdast).
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àbdest m (Cyrillic spelling а̀бдест)
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Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish آبدست (âbdest, “abdest”), from Persian آبدست (âbdast), compound of آب (âb, “water”) and دست (dast, “hand”).
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abdest (definite accusative abdesti, plural abdestler)
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- “abdest”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu