صلاة

• صَلَوٰة (ṣalāh) — classical spelling

Normalized spelling of earlier صَلَوٰة (ṣalāh), from Classical Syriac ܨܠܘܬ (ṣəlōṯ), whence the denominal root ص ل و (ṣ-l-w). It is also thought to be derived from the root و ص ل (w-ṣ-l). Compare Ugaritic 𐎕𐎍𐎚 (ṣlt).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.laːh/
  • (Persian Gulf) IPA^(key): /sˤə.ɫaːt/

صَلَاة • (ṣalāh) f (plural صَلَوَات (ṣalawāt))

1. verbal noun of صَلَّى (ṣallā) (form II)
2. prayer in general; spontaneous prayer
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:103:

     وَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ صَلَاتَكَ سَكَنٌ لَهُمْ

     wa-ṣalli ʕalayhim ʔinna ṣalātaka sakanun lahum

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   يُؤَدِّي اَلْمُسْلِمُونَ اَلْصَلَاةَ خَمْسَ مَرّاتٍ فِي اَلْيَوْمِ

   yuʔaddī l-muslimūna l-ṣalāta ḵamsa marrātin fī l-yawmi

   Muslims perform the prayer five times a day.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:110:

     قُلِ ٱدْعُوا ٱللَّهَ أَوِ ٱدْعُوا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنَ أَيًّا مَا تَدْعُوا فَلَهُ ٱلْأَسْمَاءُ ٱلْحُسْنَى وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَٱبْتَغِ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ سَبِيلًا

     quli dʕū l-laha ʔawi dʕū r-raḥmāna ʔayyan mā tadʕū fa-lahu l-ʔasmāʔu l-ḥusnā wa-lā tajhar bi-ṣalātika wa-lā tuḵāfit bihā wa-btaḡi bayna ḏālika sabīlan

     Say (to them, O Mohammed): Call upon (Him by) "God" or call upon (Him by) "ar-Raḥmân" ("The Merciful One"); whichever you call upon (Him by), (remember that) the most beautiful of names belong to Him; and be not very loud in your prayers nor be very quiet but follow a way in between.

3. place of worship, especially of the Jews, hence a synagogue
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:40:

     وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَّصَلَوَاتٌ وَّمَسٰجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا ٱسْمُ ٱللهِ كَثِيرًا

     walawlā dafʕu llāhi n-nāsa baʕḍahum bibaʕḍin llahuddimat ṣawāmiʕu wabiyaʕun wwaṣalawātun wwamasājidu yuḏkaru fīhā smu llāhi kaṯīran

     And were it not that God checks some people by others there in fact would have been demolished churches and monastic cells, and synagogues and mosques wherein the name of God is oft-mentioned.

4. (Islam) salat, namaz, prayer
5. blessing and salutation on somebody
   1. (by extension) blessing and salutation
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:157:

        أُولَٰئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ

        ʔūlāʔika ʕalayhim ṣalawātun min rabbihim waraḥmatun

        Those are the ones upon whom are blessings and salutations as well as mercy from their Lord.

• عَلَيْهِ ٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi ṣ-ṣalātu was-salāmu)
• صَلَاة السَّاعَات الْكَبِيرَة (ṣalā(t) as-sāʕāt al-kabīra)

• دُعَاء (duʕāʔ, “supplication, du'a'”)
• زَكَاة (zakāh, “almsgiving, zakat”)
• صَوْم (ṣawm, “fast, sawm”)

• → Afar: salat
• → Armenian: սալավաթ (salavatʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: salavat
• → Bashkir: салауат (salawat), Салауат (Salawat) (proper name)
• → English: salat
• → Georgian: სალავათი (salavati)
• → Persian: صلات (salât)
• → Indonesian: salat, shalat, solat, sholat
• → Japanese: サラー (sarā)
• → Judeo-Arabic: צלא (ṣla, “synagogue”)
• → Malay: solat
• → Ottoman Turkish: صلوات (salavat)
  • Turkish: salavat
• → Tatar: салават (salawat)
• → Russian: саля́т (salját)
• → Spanish: azalá
• → Swahili: swala

Learned borrowing from Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.laː/, [sˤɑˈlɑː]

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صلاة • (ṣalā) f (plural صلوات (ṣalawāt))

1. prayer