xhemat

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جماعت (cemaʼat).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeˈmat/
• Rhymes: -at

xhemat m

1. (archaic) population, people

   Synonym: popull

2. (Islam) congregation, jamaat

   namazi me xhemat ― congregational prayer

• Rossi, F. (1875) “gemàt”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 449b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*xhemat”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 509
• Meyer, G. (1891) “džemát”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 81