# دعوت
## Arabic
### Verb

دعوت (form I)
* دَعَوْتُ (daʕawtu) /da.ʕaw.tu/: first-person singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
* دَعَوْتَ (daʕawta) /da.ʕaw.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)
* دَعَوْتِ (daʕawti) /da.ʕaw.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of دَعَا (daʕā)

## Gujarati
### Proper noun

دعوت • (dāvat) n (Lisan ud-Dawat)
* Alternative form of دعوۃ

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

### Noun

دعوت • (daʼvet) (definite accusative مجلسی (daʼveti), plural دعوات (daʼavat))
* call, summons, an instance of calling or hailing someone using one's voice
    Synonym: چاغرمه (çağırma)
* invitation, lathing, the act of inviting or requesting a person's company

#### Derived terms

* دعوت ایتمك (daʼvet etmek, “to invite”)
* دعوت تذكره‌سی (daʼvet tezkeresi, “note of invitation”)
* دعوتجی (daʼvetci, “inviter”)
* دعوتسز (daʼvetsiz, “uninvited”)
* دعوتلو (daʼvetli, “invited”)
* دعوتی (daʼvetî, “pertaining to invitations”)
* دعوتیه (daʼvetiye, “present given to an inviter”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: davet
* → Armenian: տավէթ (tavētʻ), դա̈վա̈թ (dävätʻ)

### Further reading

* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “davet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “davet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1114
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “da'vet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 202
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 574a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Invitatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 864
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دعوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2091
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “davet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 905

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [daʔ.wat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äʔ.wät̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äʔ.wät̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɑː.wät̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ɔː.wät̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪æʔ.væt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪äʔ.vät̪]

### Noun

| Dari | دعوت |
| Iranian Persian | دعوت |
| Tajik | даъват |
دَعوَت • (da'vat)
* invitation, call (to a religion, etc.)
    ما را برای شام دعوت کردند. (more literary)mâ-râ barâ-ye šâm da'vat kardand.
    برای شام دعوتمون کردن. (colloquial)barâ-ye šâm da'vat-emun kardan.They invited us for dinner.
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 843:دعوت دین کن که دعوت واردستda'vat-e din kon ke da'vat vâred-astCall [him] to the [true] religion, for the [command to] call hath come down [from God].
* convivial meeting

#### Derived terms

(verbs)
* دعوت شدن (da'vat šodan)
* دعوت کردن (da'vat kardan)
(others)
* دعوتنامه (da'vatnâme)

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: દાવત (dāvat)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: दावत (dāvat)
    Urdu: دَعْوَت (dāvat)
*   * → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
*   * → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)
* → Marwari: दावत (dāvat)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਵਤ (dāvat), ਦਾਅਵਤ (dāavat), ਦਾਹਵਤ (dāhvat)
    Shahmukhi script: دَعْوَت (daʻvat)
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: دَعَوَتَ
    Devanagari script: दावत

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دعوت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَعْوَت (da'wat), borrowed from Arabic دَعْوَة (daʕwa), from دَعَا (daʕā).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪əʔ.ʋət̪/, [d̪ɑː.ʋət̪], [-wət̪]
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ət̪
* Hyphenation: دَع‧وَت

### Noun

دَعْوَت • (da'vat) f (Hindi spelling दावत)
* invitation
* invite, request (to join a movement, or purpose)
* feast, dinner, banquet
* invitation, call (to faith; religion)
* incantation, invocation

#### Declension

Declension of دعوت :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | دَعْوَت (daʻvat) | دَعْوَتیں (daʻvatẽ) |
| oblique | دَعْوَت (daʻvat) | دَعْوَتوں (daʻvatõ) |
| vocative | دَعْوَت (daʻvat) | دَعْوَتو (daʻvato) |

#### Descendants

* → Telugu: దావత్ (dāvat)
* → Ushojo: دعوت (da'vat)

### Further reading

* “دعوت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “دعوت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “دعوت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu دعوت (da'vat).

### Noun

دعوت (da'vat)
* a feast of food