دعوت

دعوت (form I)

1. دَعَوْتُ (daʕawtu) /da.ʕaw.tu/: first-person singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
2. دَعَوْتَ (daʕawta) /da.ʕaw.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
3. دَعَوْتِ (daʕawti) /da.ʕaw.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

دعوت • (dāvat) n

1. Lisan ud-Dawat spelling of દાવત (dāvat)

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

دعوت • (daʼvet) (definite accusative مجلسی (daʼveti), plural دعوات (daʼavat))

1. call, summons, an instance of calling or hailing someone using one's voice

   Synonym: چاغرمه (çağırma)

2. invitation, lathing, the act of inviting or requesting a person's company

• Turkish: davet
• → Armenian: տավէթ (tavētʻ), դա̈վա̈թ (dävätʻ)

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “davet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “davet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1114
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “da'vet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 202
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 574a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Invitatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 864
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دعوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2091
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “davet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 905

Borrowed 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, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, 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:

  Hindi: दावत (dāvat)

  Urdu: دَعْوَت (dāvat)

  • → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
  • → 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 دَعْوَت (da'wat), borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa), from دَعَا (daʕā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əʔ.ʋət̪/, [d̪ɑː.ʋət̪], [-wət̪]

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: دَع‧وَت

دَعْوَت • (da'vat) 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

• → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
• → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

• “دعوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دعوت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “دعوت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

From Urdu دعوت (da'vat).

دعوت (da'vat)

1. a feast of food