ذات

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Arabic

Noun

ذَات (ḏātf (dual ذَوَاتَا (ḏawātā) or ذَاتَا (ḏātā), dual oblique ذَوَاتَيْ (ḏawātay) or ذَاتَيْ (ḏātay), plural ذَوَات (ḏawāt) or أُولَات (ʾulāt), masculine ذُو (ḏū)) (construct state only)

  1. feminine singular of ذُو (ḏū, possessor of, owner of)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 111:3:
      سَيَصْلَى نَارًا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ
      sayaṣlā nāran ḏāta lahabin
      He will burn in a Fire of flame
  2. spontaneousness
    ذَات الْبَيْنḏāt al-bayndisagreement, enmity; concord, friendship
    ذَاتَ يَوْمٍḏāta yawminone day, once
    ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍḏāta laylatinon a certain night
    ذَاتَ مَرَّةٍḏāta marratinonce; one time
    • (Can we date this quote?) Ahmad Shawqi
      يُقَالُ كَانَ الْكَلْبُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ
      بَيْنَ الرِّيَاضِ غَارِقًا فِي النَّوْمِ
      yuqālu kāna l-kalbu ḏāta yawmin
      bayna r-riyāḍi ḡāriqan fī n-nawmi
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Noun

ذَات (ḏātf (dual ذَاتَانِ (ḏātāni), plural ذَوَات (ḏawāt))

  1. being, essence, substance, nature
  2. person, individual
    ذَاتًاḏātanpersonally
  3. self, identity
    ذَات نَفْسِهِḏāt nafsihihis self
    ذَات أَنْفُسِهِمḏāt ʔanfusihimtheir selves
  4. -self
    هُوَ بِذَاتِهِhuwa biḏātihihe himself
    هُوَ ذَاتُهُhuwa ḏātuhuhe himself
  5. same
    ذَات الشَّيْءḏāt aš-šayʔthe same thing
    ذَات الْأَشْيَاءḏāt al-ʔašyāʔthe same things
    السَّنَة ذَاتُهَاas-sana ḏātuhāthe same year
  6. material object
    اِسْم الذَّاتism aḏ-ḏātconcrete noun
  7. (philosophy) essence
    Coordinate term: عَرَض (ʕaraḍ, accident)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • North Levantine Arabic: ذات (learned)
  • Ottoman Turkish: ذات
  • Swahili: dhati
  • Turkmen: zat

Pronoun

ذَاتَ (ḏātaf

  1. (rare, obsolete) feminine singular of ذَا (ḏā, this)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic ذات (ḏāt).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذات (zēt, zātf

  1. essence
  2. same
  3. -self

Usage notes

  • Often used with enclitic suffixes with the singular and plural third-person pronouns, هو, هي, and هن/هنن.
    • هو ذاتهُ (huwwe zēto, the same one) masc.
    • هي ذاتهَا (hiyye zēta, the same one) fem.
    • هن ذاتهُن (hinne zētun, the same ones)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذَات (ḏāt).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ḏāt
Dari reading? zāt
Iranian reading? zât
Tajik reading? zot

Noun

ذات (zât) (plural ذوات (zavât))

  1. essence; nature, fundamental characteristic
    در ذاتشdar zât-ešin its essence; essentially
  2. substance
  3. (archaic) person; especially often used in old-fashioned honorifics.
    ذات شریفzât-e šarifhis noble person

Derived terms

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ذات (zāt), from Arabic ذَات (ḏāt).

Pronunciation

Noun

ذات (zātf (Hindi spelling ज़ात)

  1. essence
  2. nature (characteristic)
  3. substance
  4. body
  5. person, entity
  6. self, ego
  7. possessor, owner
  8. breed, caste
  9. generation