zakat

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• Received-Pronunciation: /zəˈkɑːt/
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• General-American: /zəˈkɑt/
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• General-American: /zɑ-/
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• rhymes with -ɑːt
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Borrowed from: * Persian زکات (zakât); * Turkish zekât, from Ottoman Turkish زكات (zekat); or * Urdu زَکَات (zakāt); all from Arabic زَكَاة (zakāh, “almsgiving, zakat; purification”), from زَكَوٰة (zakāh) (archaic), from Aramaic זכותא/ܙܟܘܬܐ (zākūṯā, “goodness, probity, uprightness; merit; victory”), from זכי (zəḵē, “to gain; to overcome, triumph over”).

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: jakeuët — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Afrikaans: zakaat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Albanian: zeqati — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Arabic: زَكَاة (zakāh) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Armenian: զաքաթ (zakʻatʻ) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Assamese: জাকাত (zakat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Asturian: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Azerbaijani: zəkat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Bashkir: зәкәт (zəkət) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Basque: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Bengali: যাকাত (jakat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Bulgarian: закат (zakat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Bulgarian: заках (zakah) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Bulgarian: зекят (zekjat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Catalan: almoina — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Chechen: закат (zakat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Chinese Mandarin: 天課 /天课 (tiānkè) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Crimean Tatar: zekât — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Czech: zakát — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Dagbani: zaka — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Danish: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Dhivehi: ޒަކާތް (zakāt̊) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Dutch: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Esperanto: zakato — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Finnish: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• French: zakât — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Georgian: ზაქათი (zakati) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• German: Zakāt — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Gujarati: ઝકાત (jhakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Hausa: zakka — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Hebrew: זכאה — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Hindi: ज़कात (zakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Indonesian: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Ingush: загат (zagat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Italian: zakāt — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Japanese: ザカート (zakāto) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Javanese: jakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Kannada: ಝಕಾತ್ (jhakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Kashmiri: زَکات (zakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Kazakh: зекет (zeket) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Korean: 자카트 (jakateu) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Kyrgyz: зекет (zeket) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Latvian: zakā — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Lithuanian: zakiatas — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Macedonian: зе́кат (zékat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Malagasy: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Malagasy: asa fiantrana — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Malay: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Malayalam: സകാത്ത് (sakāttŭ) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Minangkabau: zakait — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Norwegian Bokmål: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Pashto: زکات — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Persian: زکات (zakât) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Polish: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Portuguese: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Portuguese: zacate — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Portuguese: zacá — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Portuguese: azacá — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Punjabi: ਜ਼ਕਾਤ (zakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Russian: закя́т (zakját) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Saraiki: زکوۃ — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Serbo-Croatian: зѐка̄т — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Serbo-Croatian: zèkāt — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Somali: sako — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Spanish: azaque — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Sundanese: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Swedish: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Tajik: закот (zakot) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Tamil: சகாத் (cakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Tatar: зәкәт (zäkät) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Tatar: зәкят (zäkyat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Telugu: జకాత్ (jakāt) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Thai: ซะกาต (sá-gàat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Turkish: zekât — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Ottoman Turkish: زكات (zekat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Turkmen: zekat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Ukrainian: зака́т (zakát) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Ukrainian: закя́т (zakját) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Urdu: زکات — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Uyghur: زاكات (zakat) — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Uzbek: zakot — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Vietnamese: zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Walloon: zacate — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes
• Welsh: Zakat — almsgiving in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property, which is used for charitable purposes