zakat

zakat

See also: zakât

English

Alternative forms

• zakah, zakaah, zakāh, zikat/Zikat, Zikât

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زکات‎ (zakât), from Arabic زَكَاة‎ (zakāh), from earlier Arabic زَكَوٰة‎ (zakāh).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zəˈkɑːt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːt

Noun

zakat (uncountable)

1. (Islam) Almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 27:

     Amongst these stations is the well-known place called Qatya, where zakat is collected from the merchants, their goods are examined and their baggage most rigorously searched.

Translations

One of the Five Pillars of Islam/Submission

Armenian: զաքաթ (zakʿatʿ) Arabic: زَكَاة‎‎ f (zakāh)‎ Azerbaijani: zəkat Chinese: Mandarin: 天課／天课 (tiānkè) French: zakât (fr) f Georgian: ზაქათი (zakati) German: Zakāt f Hindi: ज़कात f (zakāt) Indonesian: zakat (id) Kazakh: зекет (zeket) Persian: زکات‎‎‎ Russian: закя́т (ru) m (zakját) Tajik: закот (zakot) Thai: ซะกาต Turkish: zekât (tr) Ottoman Turkish: زكات‎ Uzbek: zakot (uz)

Further reading

• zakat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kaatz

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay zakat, from Classical Malay زكاة‎ (zakat), from Arabic زَكَوٰة‎ (zakāh).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzakat̚/
• Rhymes: -kat, -at, -t
• Hyphenation: za‧kat

Noun

zakat (plural zakat-zakat, first-person possessive zakatku, second-person possessive zakatmu, third-person possessive zakatnya)

1. (Islam) zakat: almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam.

Derived terms

• berzakat

 

• zakat fitrah
• zakat mal
• zakat penghasilan
• zakat profesi

 

References

1. Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936

Further reading

• “zakat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.