xhemat

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جماعت (cemaʼat).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒeˈmat/
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

xhemat m

  1. (archaic) population, people
    Synonym: popull
  2. (Islam) congregation, jamaat
    namazi me xhemat ― congregational prayer

References
  • Rossi, F. (1875) “gemàt”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 449b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*xhemat”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 509
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “džemát”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 81
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