zakat

See also: zakât

English

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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.

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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

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