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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).
Noun
جماعت • (cemaʼat) (plural جماعات)
- assembly, crowd, group
- (Islam) jamaat, congregation gathered to pray
- community
Descendants
References
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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jamā'at
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Dari reading?
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jamā'at
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Iranian reading?
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jamâ'at
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Tajik reading?
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jamoʾat
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Noun
جَماعَت • (jamâ'at) (plural جماعات)
- (Islam) congregation
- crowd
- community
- assembly
- council
- collective
- gathering
- company
Descendants
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جَمَاعَت (jamā'at), borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).
Pronunciation
Noun
جَماعَت • (jamā'at) f (formal plural جَماعات (jamā'āt), Hindi spelling जमात or जमाअत)
- community; organisation; group
- congregation
- (Islam) congregational worship (salat)
- (religion) congregation (religious, excl. salat)
- (politics) political party
- (education) year-group, class
- (mathematics, set theory) class, sets
Declension
Declension of جماعت
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singular
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plural
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direct
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جَماعَت (jamā'at)
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جَماعَتیں (jamā'atẽ)
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oblique
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جَماعَت (jamā'at)
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جَماعَتوں (jamā'atõ)
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vocative
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جَماعَت (jamā'at)
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جَماعَتو (jamā'ato)
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “جماعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “جماعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جماعت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “جماعت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 388