زکوۃ

Urdu

Alternative forms

  • زکواۃ (zakát), زکات (zakāt), زکوٰہ (zakáh)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic زَكَوٰة (zakawā), specifically Classical Arabic.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /zə.kɑːt̪/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
  • Hyphenation: زَ‧کات

Noun

زکوٰۃ • (zakát) f (Hindi spelling ज़कात) (indeclinable)

  1. alms, charity
  2. (Islam) Almsgiving; zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam.

Further reading

  • “زکواۃ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “زَکوٰۃ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “zakāt'”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 357
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