Jumu'ah

• Jumma, jum'ah, jummah, Jumu'a, Jumuah

From Arabic الْجُمُعَة‎ (al-jumuʕa).

Jumu'ah (uncountable)

1. (Islam) The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, transl., Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 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.