Jumu'ah
English
Alternative forms
- Jumma, jum'ah, jummah, Jumu'a, Jumuah
Etymology
From Arabic الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʿa).
Noun
Jumu'ah (uncountable)
- (Islam) The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 195:
- [T]here was a reasonably priced foot of land from which the raindbow could be seen at night every third jum'a in the month of Rabbi-ul-aker.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 57:
- Then, […] the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel-dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier-muezzin calling his saddle-weary brothers to a belated Jumuah.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 195: