екінті

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ەكىنتى
Cyrillic екінті
Latin ekıntı

Etymology

A derivation from Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i (“two”).

Cognate with Tatar икенде (ikende, “the mid-afternoon prayer”); Crimean Tatar ekindi (“mid-afternoon”), Karachay-Balkar экинди (ekindi, “mid-afternoon”), Turkish ikindi (“the mid-afternoon prayer”)

Noun

екінті • (ekıntı)

  1. (Islam) Asr prayer, the mid-afternoon daily prayer, the third of the five daily prayers in Islam
  2. the mid-afternoon time when such prayer is performed
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