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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جماعت (cemaʼat).
Pronunciation
Noun
xhemat m
- (archaic) population, people
- Synonym: popull
- (Islam) congregation, jamaat
- namazi me xhemat ― congregational prayer
References
- Rossi, F. (1875) “gemàt”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 449b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*xhemat”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 509
- Meyer, G. (1891) “džemát”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 81