جمعیت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَمْعِيَّة (jamʕiyya, “association; gathering, assembly”); analyzable as جمع (cemʼ, “collection”) +‎ ـیت (-iyet).

Noun

جمعیت • (cemʼiyet)

1. society, association, club, a group of people who meet to engage in a common interest

   Synonym: انجمن (encümen)

2. convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose

   Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), انجمن (encümen), درنك (dernek), مجلس (meclis)

3. (sociology) society, a long-standing group of individuals sharing cultural aspects

Derived terms

• جمعیت خاطر (cemʼiyet-i hatır, “composure of mind”)
• جمعیتسز (cemʼiyetsiz, “thinly attended”)
• جمعیتلو (cemʼiyetli, “well attended”)
• جمعیتگاه (cemʼiyetgâh, “rendezvous”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: cemiyet
• → Crimean Tatar: cemiyet

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cemiyet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 774
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cem'iyyet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 163
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جمعیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 445
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Convocatio”, 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 282
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جمعیت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1652
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cemiyet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جمعیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 677

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَمْعِيَّة (jamʕiyya).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒam.ʔij.jat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäm.ʔij.jät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäm.ʔij.jät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.mij.jät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.mij.jät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæm.ʔij.jæt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäm.ʔij.jät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jam'iyyat
Dari reading?	jam'iyyat
Iranian reading?	jam'iyyat
Tajik reading?	jamʾiyyat

Noun

جَمْعِیَّت • (jam'iyyat)

1. population

   جمعیت ایران در حدود هشتاد میلیون نفر است.

   jam'iyyat-e irân dar hodud-e haštâd milyun nafar ast.

   The population of Iran is around eighty million.

2. throng, crowd