جمعرات

Urdu

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Arabic جَمَعَ (jamaʕa)

Arabic جُمْعَة (jumʕa)bor.

Classical Persian جُمْعَه (jum'a)bor.

Urdu جُمْعَہ (jum'a)

Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂

Proto-Indo-European *-trih₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *HráHtriH

Sanskrit रात्री॑ (rā́trī)

Sanskrit रात्रि॑ (rā́tri)

Prakrit 𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀺 (ratti)

Old Hindi رتی (rty)

Urdu رات (rāt)

Urdu جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)

First attested in c. 1669 as Middle Hindi جمعرات (jm'rat /⁠juma'rāt⁠/), a contraction of جُمْعَہ رات (jm'h rat), from جُمْعَہ (jum'a, “Friday”) +‎ رات (rāt, “eve”), literally “Friday eve”, because as per Islamic and Abrahamic tradition, the day changes at sunset.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊ.mɪʔ.ɾɑːt̪/, [d͡ʒʊ.me.ɾɑːt̪]

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊ.mɑ(ːʔ).ɾɑːt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt̪

Noun

جُمِعْرات • (jumi'rāt) f (Hindi spelling जुमेरात)

1. Thursday

   Synonyms: بِرْہَسْپَت (birhaspat), پَن٘ج شَن٘بَہ (pañj śamba)

Declension

Declension of جمعرات

	singular	plural
direct	جُمِعْرات (jumiʻrāt)	جُمِعْرات (jumiʻrāt)
oblique	جُمِعْرات (jumiʻrāt)	جُمِعْراتوں (jumiʻrātõ)
vocative	جُمِعْرات (jumiʻrāt)	جُمِعْراتو (jumiʻrāto)

Derived terms

• کَالی جُمِعْرَات (kālī jumi'rāt, “first of never”)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: જુમેરાત (jumerāt)

See also

Days of the week in Urdu · ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din) (layout · text)
پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār)	مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)	بُدھ (budh)	جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)	جُمْعَہ (jum'a)	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba)	اِتْوَار (itvār)

Further reading

More information

• “جمعرات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “جمعہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “جمعرات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “جمعرات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC