جمعرات

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Urdu

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Etymology

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First attested in c. 1669 as Middle Hindi جُمَعْرات (jm'rat),[1] a contraction of جُمْعَہ رات (jm'h rat), from جُمْعَہ (jum'a, Friday) +‎ رات (rāt, eve), literally Friday eve,[2] because as per Islamic and Abrahamic tradition, the day changes at sunset.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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جُمِعْرات (jumi'rātf (Hindi spelling जुमेरात)

  1. Thursday
    Synonyms: بِرْہَسْپَت (birhaspat), پَن٘ج شَن٘بَہ (pañj śamba)

Declension

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Declension of جمعرات
singular plural
direct جمعرات (jumiʻrāt) جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)
oblique جمعرات (jumiʻrāt) جمعراتوں (jumiʻrātō̃)
vocative جمعرات (jumiʻrāt) جمعراتو (jumiʻrātō)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gujarati: જુમેરાત (jumerāt)

See also

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

References

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  1. ^ جمعرات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “جمعرات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Further reading

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