جنت

See also: جنب, خنب, حنت, and خنت

Arabic

Verb

جَنَّتْ • (jannat) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine singular past active of جَنَّ (janna)

Verb

جُنَّتْ • (junnat) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine singular past passive of جَنَّ (janna)
  2. third-person feminine singular past passive of جُنَّ (junna)

Baluchi

Etymology

From Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Noun

جنت • (jannat)

  1. paradise, heaven

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jannat), from Arabic جَنَّة (janna, “paradise”).

Noun

جنت • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennat))

  1. (originally) garden, park, any outdoor, luxuriant area where plants are grown for ornamental purposes
    Synonyms: باغ (bağ), باغچه (bağçe), فردوس (firdevs)
  2. (religion) Heaven, paradise, the abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location
    Synonyms: اوچماق (uçmak), فردوس (firdevs)
Derived terms
  • جنت اعمال (cennet-i aʼmal, “paradise of senses”)
  • جنت روح (cennet-i ruh, “spiritual heaven”)
  • جنت قلب (cennet-i kalb, “spiritual heaven”)
  • جنت قوشی (cennet kuşu, “bird-of-paradise”)
  • جنت نفس (cennet-i nefs, “paradise of senses”)
  • جنتلك (cennetlik, “worthy of paradise, pious”)
  • جنتلی (cennetli, “who has attained paradise by his piety; deceased; great in memory”)
  • جنتمكان (cennetmekân, “situated in paradise; deceased”)
Descendants
  • Turkish: cennet
  • → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
  • → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет
    Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jinnat), from Arabic جِنَّة (jinna, “madness, craziness”).

Noun

جنت • (cinnet)

  1. lunacy, insanity, madness, craziness, the state of being mad or crazy
    Synonyms: جنون (cunun), دلیلك (delilik)
Descendants
  • Turkish: cinnet

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Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جنة

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading? jannat
Dari reading? jannat
Iranian reading? jannat
Tajik reading? jannat

Noun
Dari جنت
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷаннат

جَنَّت • (jannat)

  1. paradise
    Synonym: بِهِشْت (behešt)
  2. heaven
    Synonyms: آسْمان (āsmān), عرش (arš)

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جنت (jannat), from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d͡ʒən.nət̪/
  • Audio (PK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ət̪
  • Hyphenation: جَنْ‧نَت

Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)

  1. heaven, paradise

Declension
Declension of جنت
singular plural
direct جَنَّت (jannat) جَنَّتیں (jannatẽ)
oblique جَنَّت (jannat) جَنَّتوں (jannatõ)
vocative جَنَّت (jannat) جَنَّتو (jannato)

References
  • “جنت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “جنت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu جنت (jannat).

Noun

جنت (jannat)

  1. heaven, paradise
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