صدقة

From Aramaic צְדַקְתָּא (ṣǝḏaqtā), from the root equalling the Arabic root ص د ق (ṣ-d-q). Cognate to Hebrew צְדָקָה (ṣədāqā).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.da.qa/

صَدَقَة • (ṣadaqa) f (dual صَدَقَتَانِ (ṣadaqatāni), plural صَدَقَات (ṣadaqāt))

1. alms; charitable gift; charity

• Hausa: sadaka
  • Yoruba: sàráà
• Persian: صدقه (sadaqe)
  • → Bengali: সদকা (sôdka)
  • Azerbaijani: sədəqə
  • Indonesian: sedekah
  • Kazakh: садақа (sadaqa)
  • Malay: sedekah
  • Turkish: sadaka
• → Swahili: sadaka
• → Serbo-Croatian: sadaka

صَدُقَة • (ṣaduqa) f (dual صَدُقَتَانِ (ṣaduqatāni), plural صَدُقَات (ṣaduqāt))

1. dowry
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:4:

     وَآتُوا ٱلنِّسَاءَ صَدُقَاتِهِنَّ نِحْلَةً

     waʔātū n-nisāʔa ṣaduqātihinna niḥlatan

     And give unto the women (whom ye marry) free gift of their marriage portions (Pickthall)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 20
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 194
• Rudolph, Wilhelm (1922) Die Abhängigkeit des Qorans von Judentum und Christentum (in German), Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, pages 60–61
• Torrey, Charles Cutler (1933) The Jewish foundation of Islam‎, New York: Jewish Institute of Religion Press – Bloch Publishing Co., Agents, page 141
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صدق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN