جنت

See also: جنب, خنب, حنت, and خنت

Arabic

Verb

جنت (form I)

1. جَنَّتْ (jannat) /d͡ʒan.nat/: third-person feminine singular past active of جَنَّ (janna)
2. جُنَّتْ (junnat) /d͡ʒun.nat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of جَنَّ (janna) and جُنَّ (junna)

Baluchi

Etymology

From Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جنت • (jannat)

1. paradise, heaven

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Old Anatolian Turkish جنت

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جَنَّتْ • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennāt) or جنتلر (cennetler))

1. (religion) Heaven, paradise, the abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location

   Synonyms: اوچمق (uçmaq), فردوس (firdevs), بهشت (behişt)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: cənnət
• Gagauz: cennet
• Ottoman Turkish: جنت
  • Turkish: cennet
  • → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
  • → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет

    Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Old Anatolian Turkish جَنَّت

Ottoman Turkish جنت

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish جَنَّت, borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جنت • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennat))

1. (originally) garden, park, any outdoor, luxuriant area where plants are grown for ornamental purposes

   Synonyms: باغ (bağ), باغچه (bağçe), فردوس (firdevs)

2. (religion) Heaven, paradise, the abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location

   Synonyms: اوچماق (uçmak), فردوس (firdevs)

Derived terms

• جنت قوشی (cennet kuşu, “bird-of-paradise”)
• جنتلك (cennetlik, “destined to paradise”)
• جنتلی (cennetli, “situated in paradise”)
• جنتمكان (cennetmekân, “situated in paradise”)

Descendants

• Turkish: cennet
• → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
• → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет

  Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cennet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 777
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Paradisus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cennet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jinnat), from Arabic جِنَّة (jinna, “madness, craziness”).

Noun

جنت • (cinnet)

1. madness, craziness, insanity, lunacy, the state of being mad, crazy, or insane

   Synonyms: دلیلك (delilik), دیوانه‌لك (divânelik), مجنونلق (mecnunluk), مجنونیت (mecnuniyet)

Descendants

• Turkish: cinnet

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cinnet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 822
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Insania”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[8], Vienna, columns 821-822
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[9], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cinnet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒan.ˈnat/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nát̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nát̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nát̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nát̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæn.nǽt̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nát̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jannat
Dari reading?	jannat
Iranian reading?	jannat
Tajik reading?	jannat

Noun

جنت • (jannat) (Tajik spelling ҷаннат) (literary or Islam)

1. paradise

   Synonym: بهشت (bihišt / behešt)

2. heaven

   Synonyms: آسمان (āsmān / âsmân), عرش (arš)

Descendants

• → Baluchi: جنت (jannat)
• → Bengali: জান্নাত (jannat)
• → Chagatai: جنت (jännät)
  • Uyghur: جەننەت (jennet)
  • Uzbek: jannat
• → Gujarati: જન્નત (jannat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जन्नत (jannat)

  Urdu: جَنَّت (jannat)

• → Kazakh: жәннат (jännat)
• → Marathi: जन्नत (jannat)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: جنت (cennet)
  • Azerbaijani: cənnət
  • Gagauz: cennet
  • Ottoman Turkish: جنت
    • Turkish: cennet
    • → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
    • → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет

      Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

• → Pashto: جنت (ǰanát)
• → Turkmen: jennet

Punjabi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Punjabi جَنَّت (jannat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒən.nət̪/, [d͡ʒɐ̃n.nət̪ᵊ]

Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਜੰਨਤ)

1. paradise, heaven

   Synonyms: بَہِشْت (bahiśt), فِرْدَوس (firdaus), سُوَرْگ (suvarg), سُرْگ (surg), باغ (bāġ)

   Antonyms: جَہَنَّم (jahannam), دوزَخ (dozax)

Declension

Declension of جنت

	singular	plural
direct	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتاں (jannatāṉ)
oblique	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتاں (jannatāṉ)
vocative	جَنَّتے (jannate)	جَنَّتو (jannato)
ablative	جَنَّتوں (jannatoṉ)	—
locative	جَنَّتی (jannatī)	جَنَّتِیں (jannatīṉ)
instrumental	جَنَّتے (jannate)	جَنَّتِیں (jannatīṉ)

Proper noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਜੰਨਤ)

1. a female given name from Arabic

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “جنَّت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz], page 986
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “جنت”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਜੰਨਤ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Sindhi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Sindhi جَنَتَ (janata)

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جَنَتَ • (janat) f

1. heaven, paradise

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “جنت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society, page 177
• Shirt, George; Thavurdas, Udharam; Mirza, S.F. (1879), “جنت”, in A Sindhi-English Dictionary, Karachi: Commissioner's Printing Press, page 300

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Urdu جَنَّت (jannat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi جنت (jnt /⁠janat⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒən.nət̪/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: جَنْ‧نَت

Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)

1. heaven, paradise

   Synonyms: بَہِشْت (bahiśt), فِرْدَوس (firdaus)

   Antonyms: جَہَنَّم (jahannam), دوزَخ (dozax)

2. (technology) abacus

Declension

Declension of جنت

	singular	plural
direct	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتیں (jannatẽ)
oblique	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتوں (jannatõ)
vocative	جَنَّت (jannat)	جَنَّتو (jannato)

Proper noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)

1. a female given name from Arabic

Further reading

• “جنت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “جنت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

Ushojo

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Urdu جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Ushojo جنت

Borrowed from Urdu جَنَّت (jannat).

Noun

جنت (jannat)

1. heaven, paradise