Jumu'ah
English
Etymology
From Arabic الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʕa).
Noun
Jumu'ah (uncountable)
- (Islam) The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
- 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 195:
- [T]here was a reasonably priced foot of land from which the raindbow could be seen at night every third jum'a in the month of Rabbi-ul-aker.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 57:
- Then, […] the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel-dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier-muezzin calling his saddle-weary brothers to a belated Jumuah.
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- Jumuah, Jumu-ah, Jumua, Jum'ah
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʕa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /d͡ʒumuˈʔa/ [d͡ʒʊ.mʊˈʔa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: Ju‧mu‧'ah
Noun
Jumu'áh (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜋᜓᜀ) (Islam)
See also
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