جماعت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

Noun

جماعت • (cemaʼat) (plural جماعات)

  1. assembly, crowd, group
  2. (Islam) jamaat, congregation gathered to pray
  3. community

Descendants

  • Turkish: cemaat
  • Albanian: xhemat
  • Georgian: ჯამაათი (ǯamaati)
    • Bats: ჯამაათ (ǯamaat)
  • Serbo-Croatian: džèmāt / џѐма̄т

References

Persian

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒä.mɑː.ʔǽt̪]
      • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d͡ʒä.mɑːǽt̪]
      • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d͡ʒä.mɔːǽt̪]

    Readings
    Classical reading? jamā'at
    Dari reading? jamā'at
    Iranian reading? jamâ'at
    Tajik reading? jamo'at
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

    Dari جماعت
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik ҷамоат, ҷамоъат

    جَماعَت • (jamâ'at) (plural جماعات)

    1. (Islam) congregation
    2. crowd
    3. community
    4. assembly
    5. council
    6. collective
    7. gathering
    8. company

    Descendants

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian جَمَاعَت (jamā'at), borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d͡ʒə.mɑː.(ʔ)ət̪/, /d͡ʒə.mɑːt̪/
      • Audio (Pakistan):(file)
      • Rhymes: -ət̪, -ɑːt̪

      Noun

      جَماعَت • (jamā'atf (formal plural جَماعات (jamā'āt), Hindi spelling जमात or जमाअत)

      1. community; organisation; group
      2. congregation
        1. (Islam) congregational worship (salat)
        2. (religion) congregation (religious, excl. salat)
      3. (politics) political party
      4. (education) year-group, class
      5. (mathematics, set theory) class, sets

      Declension

      Declension of جماعت
      singular plural
      direct جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتیں (jamā'atẽ)
      oblique جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتوں (jamā'atõ)
      vocative جَماعَت (jamā'at) جَماعَتو (jamā'ato)

      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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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