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

1. Lisan ud-Dawat spelling of દાવત (dāvat)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Noun

دعوت • (da'vet) (definite accusative مجلسی (da'veti), plural دعوات (da'avat))

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 (da'vet etmek, “to invite”)
• دعوت تذكره‌سی (da'vet tezkeresi, “note of invitation”)
• دعوتجی (da'vetci, “inviter”)
• دعوتسز (da'vetsiz, “uninvited”)
• دعوتلو (da'vetli, “invited”)
• دعوتی (da'vetî, “pertaining to invitations”)
• دعوتیه (da'vetiye, “present given to an inviter”)

Related terms

Ottoman Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root د ع و (0 c, 5 e)

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 [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 202
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دعوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), 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

Etymology tree

Arabic دَعَا (daʕā)

Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa)bor.

Persian دعوت

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /daʔ.ˈwat/

 

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

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

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

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

• Rhymes: -at

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

Noun

دعوت • (da'wat / da'vat) (Tajik spelling даъват)

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

   ما را برای شام دعوت کردند. (more literary)

   mā rā barā-yi šām da'wat kardand. / mâ râ barâ-ye šâm da'vat kardand.

   برای شام دعوتمون کردن. (colloquial, Iran)

   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'wat-i dīn kun ki da'wat wārid 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'wat šudan / da'vat šodan, “to get invited”)
• دعوت کردن (da'wat kazdan / da'vat kazdan, “to invite”)

(others)

• دعوتنامه (da'watnāma / da'vatnâme, “invitation letter”)
• دعوتی (da'watī / da'vati, “invitational”)

Related terms

Persian terms derived from the Arabic root د ع و (0 c, 5 e)

Descendants

• → Gujarati:

  Arabic script: دعوت (dāvat)

  Gujarati script: 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 (daʻauata)

  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

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 (da'vat)	دَعْوَتیں (da'vatẽ)
oblique	دَعْوَت (da'vat)	دَعْوَتوں (da'vatõ)
vocative	دَعْوَت (da'vat)	دَعْوَتو (da'vato)

Related terms

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root د ع و (0 c, 5 e)

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, 2026.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024), “دعوت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

Ushojo

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic دَعَا (daʕā)

Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa)bor.

Classical Persian دَعْوَت (da'wat)bor.

Urdu دعوتbor.

Ushojo دعوت

Borrowed from Urdu دعوت.

Noun

دعوت (da'vat)

1. a feast of food

Related terms

Ushojo terms derived from the Arabic root د ع و (0 c, 1 e)