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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَمْعِيَّة (jamʕiyya, “association; gathering, assembly”); analyzable as جمع (cemʼ, “collection”) + ـیت (-iyet).
Noun
جمعیت • (cemʼiyet)
- society, association, club, a group of people who meet to engage in a common interest
- Synonym: انجمن (encümen)
- convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose
- Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), انجمن (encümen), درنك (dernek), مجلس (meclis)
- (sociology) society, a long-standing group of individuals sharing cultural aspects
Derived terms
- جمعیت خاطر (cemʼiyet-i hatır, “composure of mind”)
- جمعیتسز (cemʼiyetsiz, “thinly attended”)
- جمعیتلو (cemʼiyetli, “well attended”)
- جمعیتگاه (cemʼiyetgâh, “rendezvous”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cemiyet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 774
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cem'iyyet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 163
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جمعیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 445
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Convocatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 282
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جمعیت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1652
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cemiyet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جمعیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 677
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَمْعِيَّة (jamʕiyya). By surface analysis, جمع (jam') + ـیت (-iyyat).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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jam'iyyat
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| Dari reading?
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jam'iyat
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| Iranian reading?
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jam'iyyat
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| Tajik reading?
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jamʾiyat
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Noun
جَمْعِیَّت • (jam'iyyat)
- population
جمعیت ایران در حدود هشتاد میلیون نفر است.- jam'iyyat-e irân dar hodud-e haštâd milyun nafar ast.
- The population of Iran is around eighty million.
- throng, crowd
- society, fellowship
Derived terms
- جمعیت خاطر (jam'iyyat-e xâter, “composure, peace of mind”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “جمعیت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim