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

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جماعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 444b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جماعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 674a

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒa.mɑː.ˈʔat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.mɑː.ʔǽt̪]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæ.mɒː.ʔǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.mɔ.ʔǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jamā'at
Dari reading?	jamā'at
Iranian reading?	jamâ'at
Tajik reading?	jamoʾat

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

• Tajik: ҷамоат (jamoat)
• → Azerbaijani: camaat
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: जमात (jamāt)
  • Urdu: جَماعَت (jamā'at)
    • Ushojo: جُمات (jumāt)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جماعت (cemaʼat)
  • Turkish: cemaat
  • → Albanian: xhemat
  • → Georgian: ჯამაათი (ǯamaati)
    • → Bats: ჯამაათ (ǯamaat)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: džèmāt／џѐма̄т

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.mɑː.(ʔ)ət̪/, /d͡ʒə.mɑːt̪/

• Audio (PK)

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• Rhymes: -ət̪, -ɑːt̪

Noun

جَماعَت • (jamā'at) f (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

• جَماعَت بَنْدی (jamā'at bandī, “classification”)

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, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جماعت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884) “جماعت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC