umat

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay umat, from Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, community).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈumat̚/
  • Rhymes: -mat, -at, -t
  • Hyphenation: u‧mat

Noun

umat (plural umat-umat)

  1. the members of a community
  2. a common group of people

Usage notes

Umat is usually used in the context of the followers of a certain religion.

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • keumatan
  • umat manusia

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊmˠət̪ˠ/

Pronoun

umat (emphatic umatsa)

  1. second-person singular of um

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, community).

Noun

umat

  1. people
  2. community, especially a religious community
  3. human race

Synonyms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔumat/ [ˈʔuː.mɐt̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -umat
  • Syllabification: u‧mat

Noun

umat (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜋᜆ᜔)

  1. slowness; dilatoriness; sluggishness
    Synonyms: pagpapaumat-umat, pagpapaumat, bagal, kabagalan, kupad, kakuparan, sagal, kasagalan, luwat, tagal

Derived terms

  • pagpapaumat
  • pagpapaumat-umat

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