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Noun
Zikat
- (Islam, often italicized) Alternative form of zakat
1963, Pitt-Rivers & Abou Zeid, editors, Mediterranean Countrymen[1], page 170:Services given by the Sayyids are supposed to be free, but they should receive the Zikat, or one tenth of the fruits of the earth.