du'a'

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dua"

English

Alternative forms

• du'a, dua

Etymology

From Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “supplication”), from دَعَا (daʕā, “to summon”).

Noun

du'a' (countable and uncountable, plural du'a's)

1. (Islam) A prayer; (specifically), a private prayer by an individual.
   • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, Harper Voyager 2023, p. 251:

     Ramy murmured a quiet du'a, and they traipsed through the gate.

Translations

(Islam) private prayer by an individual — see also prayer

• Albanian: duajë f
• Arabic: دُعَاء m (duʕāʔ)
• Assamese: দুআ (dua)
• Azerbaijani: dua (az)
• Bashkir: доға (doğa)
• Bengali: দোয়া (bn) (dōẇa)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: дўвар (dwvar)

• Hausa: du'a'i m
• Hindi: दुआ (hi) f (duā)
• Japanese: ドゥアー (duā)
• Kazakh: дұға (dūğa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dua (ku)

• Kyrgyz: дуба (ky) (duba)
• Malay: doa (ms)
• Pashto: دعا (ps) f (do'ã)
• Persian: دعا (fa) (do'â)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: до́ва f

  Roman: dóva (sh) f

• Swahili: dua
• Tajik: дуъо (tg) (duʾo), дуо (tg) (duo)
• Tamil: துஆ (tu’ā)
• Tatar: дога (doğa)
• Turkish: dua (tr)
• Turkmen: doga
• Urdu: دعا f (du'ā)
• Uyghur: دۇئا (du'a)
• Uzbek: duo (uz)

Anagrams

• ADU, Uda, AUD, DAU, aud, Au.D., dau., Adu, UDA, aud., Aud, dau