دعوت

Arabic

Verb

دعوت (form I)

1. دَعَوْتُ (daʕawtu) /da.ʕaw.tu/: first-person singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
2. دَعَوْتَ (daʕawta) /da.ʕaw.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
3. دَعَوْتِ (daʕawti) /da.ʕaw.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

Gujarati

Proper noun

دعوت • (dāvat) n (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. Alternative form of دعوۃ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Noun

دعوت • (daʼvet) (definite accusative مجلسی (daʼveti), plural دعوات (daʼavat))

1. call, summons, an instance of calling or hailing someone using one's voice

   Synonym: چاغرمه (çağırma)

2. invitation, lathing, the act of inviting or requesting a person's company

Derived terms

• دعوت ایتمك (daʼvet etmek, “to invite”)
• دعوت تذكره‌سی (daʼvet tezkeresi, “note of invitation”)
• دعوتجی (daʼvetci, “inviter”)
• دعوتسز (daʼvetsiz, “uninvited”)
• دعوتلو (daʼvetli, “invited”)
• دعوتی (daʼvetî, “pertaining to invitations”)
• دعوتیه (daʼvetiye, “present given to an inviter”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: davet
• → Armenian: տավէթ (tavētʻ), դա̈վա̈թ (dävätʻ)

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “davet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “davet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1114
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “da'vet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 202
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 574a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Invitatio”, 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 864
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دعوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2091
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “davet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 905

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [daʔ.wat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.wät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.wät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑː.wät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔː.wät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æʔ.væt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äʔ.vät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	da'wat
Dari reading?	da'wat
Iranian reading?	da'vat
Tajik reading?	daʾvat

Noun

Dari	دعوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	даъват

دَعوَت • (da'vat)

1. invitation, call (to a religion, etc.)

   ما را برای شام دعوت کردند. (more literary)

   mâ-râ barâ-ye šâm da'vat kardand.

   برای شام دعوتمون کردن. (colloquial)

   barâ-ye šâm da'vat-emun kardan.

   They invited us for dinner.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 843:

     دعوت دین کن که دعوت واردست

     da'vat-e din kon ke da'vat vâred-ast

     Call [him] to the [true] religion, for the [command to] call hath come down [from God].

2. convivial meeting

Derived terms

(verbs)

• دعوت شدن (da'vat šodan)
• دعوت کردن (da'vat kardan)

 

(others)

• دعوتنامه (da'vatnâme)

 

Descendants

• → Gujarati: દાવત (dāvat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दावत (dāvat)

  Urdu: دَعْوَت (dāvat)

  • → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
  • → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

• → Marwari: दावत (dāvat)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਵਤ (dāvat), ਦਾਅਵਤ (dāavat), ਦਾਹਵਤ (dāhvat)

  Shahmukhi script: دَعْوَت (daʻvat)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: دَعَوَتَ

  Devanagari script: दावत

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دعوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic دَعَا (daʕā)

Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa)bor.

Classical Persian دَعْوَت (da'wat)bor.

Urdu دَعْوَت (da'vat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَعْوَت (da'wat), borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa), from دَعَا (daʕā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əʔ.ʋət̪/, [d̪ɑː.ʋət̪], [-wət̪]

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: دَع‧وَت

Noun

دَعْوَت • (da'vat) f (Hindi spelling दावत)

1. invitation
2. invite, request (to join a movement, or purpose)
3. feast, dinner, banquet
4. invitation, call (to faith; religion)
5. incantation, invocation

Declension

Declension of دعوت
	singular	plural
direct	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتیں (daʻvatẽ)
oblique	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتوں (daʻvatõ)
vocative	دَعْوَت (daʻvat)	دَعْوَتو (daʻvato)

Descendants

• → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
• → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

Further reading

• “دعوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دعوت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دعوت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دعوت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دعوت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “دعوت”, 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

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu دعوت (da'vat).

Noun

دعوت (da'vat)

1. a feast of food