Where does “zakat” come from?
Zakat comes from Persian زکات, from Arabic زَكَاة, from Arabic زَكَوٰة, from Classical Syriac ܙܟܘܬܐ.
zakat (English): Almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam
Definitions
- Almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam
Ancestry of “zakat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | zekât | — |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | زكات | — |
| 3 | Arabic | زَكَاة | almsgiving, zakat |
| 4 | Arabic | زَكَوٰة | — |
| 5 | Aramaic | זכותא | — |
| 6 | Hebrew | זכי | — |
| 7 | Hebrew | זכה | to win; to achieve, to get; to acquit |