Jumu'ah

English

Alternative forms

• Jumma, jum'ah, jummah, Jumu'a, Jumuah

Etymology

From Arabic الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʕa).

Noun

Jumu'ah (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 195:

     [T]here was a reasonably priced foot of land from which the raindbow could be seen at night every third jum'a in the month of Rabbi-ul-aker.

   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 57:

     Then, […] the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel-dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier-muezzin calling his saddle-weary brothers to a belated Jumuah.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Jumuah, Jumu-ah, Jumua, Jum'ah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒumuˈʔa/, [d͡ʒʊ.mʊˈʔa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: Ju‧mu'ah

Noun

Jumu'áh (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜋᜓᜀ) (Islam)

1. Jumu'ah (main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday)

See also

• kutba