zayat
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editzayat (plural zayats)
- A building in Burma used for meetings and religious assemblies and to give shelter to travellers.
- 1855, Emily Chubbuck Judson, Memoir of Sarah B. Judson: member of the American mission to Burmah, page 16:
- There are always several zayats in the neighborhood of a kyoung, to which the devotees of Boodh resort to listen to their priests.