جمعرات

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1669 as Middle Hindi جُمَعْرات (juma'rāt), from جُمْعَہ (jum'a, “Friday”) +‎ رات (rāt, “eve”), because as per Islamic tradition, the day changes at sunset.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊ.mɪʔ.ɾɑːt̪/, [d͡ʒʊ.me.ɾɑːt̪]

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊ.mɑ(ːʔ).ɾɑːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

Noun

جُمِعْرات • (jumiʻrāt) f (Hindi spelling जुमेरात)

1. Thursday

   Synonym: پَن٘ج شَن٘بَہ (pañj śamba)

Declension

Declension of جمعرات
	singular	plural
direct	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)
oblique	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعراتوں (jumiʻrātō̃)
vocative	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعراتو (jumiʻrātō)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: જુમેરાત (jumerāt)

See also

Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
اِتْوَار (itvār)	پِیر (pīr)	مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)	بُدھ (budh)	جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)	جُمْعَہ (jum'a)	ہَفْتَہ (hafta)

Further reading

• “جمعرات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جمعرات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جمعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “جمعرات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جمعرات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “جمعرات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC