دعا

• IPA^(key): /da.ʕaː/

دَعَا • (daʕā) I (non-past يَدْعُو (yadʕū), verbal noun دُعَاء (duʕāʔ) or دَعْوَة (daʕwa))

1. to call
2. to invite, to summon
3. to call up
4. to call upon, to appeal to, to urge

   ويُصِرُّ العَالِم أيضًا أن الإسلام يدعو المؤمنين إلى الرحمة بالآخرين.

   The scholar also insists that Islam calls on believers to be merciful to others.

5. to challenge, to induce
6. to pray, to invoke God, to supplicate

• Maltese: dagħa
• → Swahili: dai

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دعا”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic دَعَا (daʕā).

• IPA^(key): /da.ʕa/

دعا • (daʕa) I (non-past يدعي (yidʕi))

1. to pray (verbally)

   ادعي إنه تكون درجتك كويسة

   adʕi innu tikūn darajatak kuwaysa

   pray that your grade is good

From Arabic دَعَا (daʕā).

• IPA^(key): /dʕa/

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دعا • (dʕa) I (non-past يدعي (yidʕi))

1. to call upon God, to pray
   1. to curse
2. to sue (to file a legal action)

   دعاوني فالمحكمة على قبل مضاربة السيمانة الفايتة.

   dʕāwni f-el-maḥkama ʕla qibal mḍārbat es-simāna l-fāyta

   They sued me in court for last week's fight.

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Borrowed from Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “prayer, invocation”).

دعا • (duʼâ) (definite accusative دعای (duʼâyı), plural ادعیه (edʼiye))

1. prayer, orison, precation, an act of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity

   Synonym: نماز (namâz)

2. invocation, supplication, the act of calling for the assistance or presence of a superior being

   Synonym: نیاز (niyâz)

3. blessing, benediction, grace, a favour, help, or reward from God or another supernatural source

   Synonyms: بركت (bereket), خیر دعا (hayr duʼâ)

• Turkish: dua
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дова

  Latin script: dova

Borrowed from Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ).

دعا • (do'â)

1. prayer
2. blessing
3. benediction

Borrowed from Classical Persian دُعَا (du'ā), borrowed from Arabic دُعَاء (duʕāʔ), from دَعَا (daʕā). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi دعا (du'ā)ِ,^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊ.(ʔ)ɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: دُ‧عا

دُعا • (du'ā) f (formal plural اَدْعِیَہ (ad'iya), Hindi spelling दुआ)

1. (religion) prayer, supplication

   Antonyms: بَدْدُعَا (baddu'ā, “curse”), لَعَنَت (la'anat)

   آپ کی دُعا ― āp kī du'ā ― It's your prayer (it's thanks to you); I'm fine, thanks

2. (by extension, Islam) the prayers in the Qur'an
3. blessing (ie. benediction)
4. hope, wish

   Synonym: خْواہِش (xāhiś)

5. a formulaic phrase of good hope used in letters

The words دُعَا (du'ā) and نَماز (namāz) are often both translated as 'prayer'. However, the former refers to a supplication made by an individual to God, whereas the latter, نَماز (namāz), refers to the obligatory Islamic worship, known in Arabic as صَلَاة (ṣalāh) / salat. The word دُعَا (du'ā) is directly translatable as 'prayer' and نَماز (namāz) as 'salat / Islamic worship' (where عِبادَت ('ibādat) directly translates to 'worship').

دُعا • (du'ā) f (Hindi spelling दुआ)

1. a female given name, Dua, from Arabic

• “دعا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “دعا”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]