جمعية

Arabic

Root
ج م ع (j-m-ʕ)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒam.ʕij.ja/

Noun

جَمْعِيَّة • (jamʕiyya) f (plural جَمْعِيَّات (jamʕiyyāt))

  1. (countable) association; club; society; assembly
    الْجَمْعِيَّةُ الْعَامَّةُ لِلْأُمَمِ الْمُتَّحِدَةِal-jamʕiyyatu l-ʕāmmatu lilʔumami l-muttaḥidatiUnited Nations General Assembly (literally, “the General Assembly of the Organisation of the United Nations”)
  2. (countable) publicly funded and operated supermarkets

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: cəmiyyət
  • Persian: جمعیت
  • Ottoman Turkish: جمعیت (cemʼiyet)
  • Tatar: җәмгыять (cämgıyat’)
  • Turkmen: jemgyýet
  • Uyghur: جەمئىيەت (jem'iyet)
  • Uzbek: jamiyat

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “جمع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From publicly funded and operated supermarkets in Kuwait referred to officially and colloquially by that name. From Arabic جَمْعِيّة (jamʕiyya).

Pronunciation

  • (Kuwait) IPA(key): /d͡ʒəm.ˈʕiː.jə/

Noun

جمعية • (jamʿīya) f (construct state جمعية (jamʿiyat), plural جمعيات (jamʿīyāt))

  1. supermarket, grocery store

See also

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