Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

Noun

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جماعت (cemaʼat) (plural جماعات)

  1. assembly, crowd, group
  2. (Islam) jamaat, congregation gathered to pray
  3. community

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Persian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? jamā'at
    Dari reading? jamā'at
    Iranian reading? jamâ'at
    Tajik reading? jamoʾat
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

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    Dari جماعت
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik ҷамоат, ҷамоъат

    جَماعَت (jamâ'at) (plural جماعات)

    1. (Islam) congregation
    2. crowd
    3. community
    4. assembly
    5. council
    6. collective
    7. gathering
    8. company

    Descendants

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    Urdu

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Classical Persian جَمَاعَت (jamā'at), borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

      Pronunciation

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      Noun

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      جَماعَت (jamā'atf (formal plural جَماعات (jamā'āt), Hindi spelling जमात or जमाअत)

      1. community; organisation; group
      2. congregation
        1. (Islam) congregational worship (salat)
        2. (religion) congregation (religious, excl. salat)
      3. (politics) political party
      4. (education) year-group, class
      5. (mathematics, set theory) class, sets

      Declension

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          Declension of جماعت
      singular plural
      direct جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتیں (jamā'atẽ)
      oblique جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتوں (jamā'atõ)
      vocative جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتو (jamā'ato)

      Derived terms

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      Further reading

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      • جماعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
      • جماعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
      • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جماعت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
      • Platts, John T. (1884) “جماعت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 388