جمعرات

Urdu

Etymology

First attested in c. 1669 as Middle Hindi جُمَعْرات (jm'rat), 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	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)
oblique	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعراتوں (jumiʻrātō̃)
vocative	جمعرات (jumiʻrāt)	جمعراتو (jumiʻrātō)

Derived terms

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)
اِتْوَار (itvār)	پِیر (pīr), سومْوَار (somvār)	مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)	بُدھ (budh)	جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)	جُمْعَہ (jum'a)	سَنِیچَر (sanīcar), ہَفْتَہ (hafta), شَنْبَہ (śanba)

Further reading

More information

• “جمعرات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• 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