Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جماعت (cemâat), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒěmaːt/
  • Hyphenation: dže‧mat

Noun

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džèmāt m (Cyrillic spelling џѐма̄т)

  1. (Islam) congregation
  2. (Islam) jamaat
  3. community, society, group

Declension

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References

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  • džemat” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 236 seq.