دعوت

دَعَوْتُ • (daʕawtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of دَعَا‎ (daʕā)

دَعَوْتَ • (daʕawta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of دَعَا‎ (daʕā)

دَعَوْتِ • (daʕawti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of دَعَا‎ (daʕā)

دعوت • (dāvat) n (Lisan ud-Dawat)

1. Alternative form of دعوۃ

From Arabic دَعْوَة‎ (daʕwa).

دَعوَت • (da'vat)

1. invitation, call (to a religion, etc.)

   ‏ما را برای شام دعوت کردند.‎‎ (more literary)

   mâ-râ barâ-ye šâm da'vat kardand.

   ‏برای شام دعوتمون کردن.‎‎ (colloquial)

   barâ-ye šâm da'vat-emun kardan.

   They invited us for dinner.

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 843:

     ‏دعوت دین کن که دعوت واردست‎

     da'vat-e din kon ke da'vat vâred-ast

     Call [him] to the [true] religion, for the [command to] call hath come down [from God].

2. convivial meeting

(verbs)

(others)

• → Gujarati: દાવત (dāvat)
• → Hindustani: dāvat

  Hindi: दावत

  Urdu: دَعْوَت‎

  • → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

• → Marwari: दावत (dāvat)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਵਤ (dāvat), ਦਾਅਵਤ (dāavat), ਦਾਹਵਤ (dāhvat)

  Shahmukhi script: دَعْوَت‎ (daʻvat)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: دَعَوَتَ‎

  Devanagari script: दावत

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دعوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian دعوت‎ (da'vat), itself from Arabic دَعْوَة‎ (daʕwa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.(ʔ)ʋət̪/, /d̪ɑː.ʋət̪/, -wət̪

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: دَع‧وَت

دَعْوَت • (daʻvat) f (Hindi spelling दावत)

1. invitation
2. invite, request (to join a movement, or purpose)
3. feast, dinner, banquet
4. invitation, call (to faith; religion)
5. incantation, invocation

• → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

• “دعوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دعوت”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

From Urdu دعوت‎ (da'vat).

دعوت (da'vat)

1. a feast of food