نماز

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Chagatai

Etymology

From Classical Persian نماز (namāz).

Noun

نماز (namaz)

  1. (Islam) prayer, salat

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Uyghur: ناماز (namaz)
  • Uzbek:
    Latin script: namoz
    Cyrillic script: намоз

Further reading

  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “نماز”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎, Michigan Publishing, page 198

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نماز (namāz, “prayer”), from Middle Persian 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *námah.

Noun

نماز • (namâz) (definite accusative نمازی (namâzı), plural نمازلر (namâzlar))

  1. prayer, orison, precation, an act of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity
    Synonym: دعا (duʼâ)
  2. (Islam) salat, namaz, the obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day
    Synonym: صلات (salat)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭮𐭢𐭣𐭤 (OSGDE /⁠namāz⁠/, “reverence, prostration, prayer”) / 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), from Proto-Iranian *námah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *námas (“to bow, prostrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *némos (“(place of) sacrifice, worship”). Compare Sanskrit नमस् (namas), Ancient Greek νέμος (némos), Latin nemus.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? namāz
Dari reading? namāz
Iranian reading? namâz
Tajik reading? namoz

Noun

Dari نماز
Iranian Persian
Tajik намоз

نماز • (namâz) (plural نمازها (namâz-hâ))

  1. regular, prescribed prayer; (Islam) salat
    نماز جمعه ― namâz-e jom'e ― Friday prayers

Usage notes

  • Prayers that are not fixed by religious law are called دعا (do'â).

Descendants

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “namāz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Urdu

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَمَاز (namāz). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi نماز (namāz).[1] Doublet of نَمَسْتے (namaste).

Pronunciation

Noun

نَماز • (namāz) f (Hindi spelling नमाज़)

  1. (Islam) salat, prayer (worship)
    Synonym: صَلات (salāt)
  2. (figuratively) devotion, idolization

Declension

    Declension of نماز
singular plural
direct نَماز (namāz) نَمازیں (namāzẽ)
oblique نَماز (namāz) نَمازوں (namāzõ)
vocative نَماز (namāz) نَمازو (namāzo)
Related terms

References

  1. ^ “نماز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

More information
  • “نماز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نماز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “نماز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “نماز”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “نماز”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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