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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay umat, from Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, “community”).
Pronunciation
Noun
umat (first-person possessive umatku, second-person possessive umatmu, third-person possessive umatnya)
- the members of a community
- a common group of people
Usage notes
Umat is usually used in the context of the followers of a certain religion.
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References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
Irish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
umat (emphatic umatsa)
- second-person singular of um
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, “community”).
Noun
umat
- people
- community, especially a religious community
- human race
Synonyms
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔumat/,
- Hyphenation: u‧mat
Noun
umat (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜋᜆ᜔)
- slowness; dilatoriness; sluggishness
- Synonyms: pagpapaumat-umat, pagpapaumat, bagal, kabagalan, kupad, kakuparan, sagal, kasagalan, luwat, tagal
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