# جنت
## Arabic
### Verb

جنت (form I)
* جَنَّتْ (jannat) /d͡ʒan.nat/: third-person feminine singular past active of جَنَّ (janna)
* جُنَّتْ (junnat) /d͡ʒun.nat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of جَنَّ (janna) and جُنَّ (junna)

## Baluchi
### Etymology

From Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

### Noun

جنت • (jannat)
* paradise, heaven

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

جنت • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennat))
* (originally) garden, park, any outdoor, luxuriant area where plants are grown for ornamental purposes
    Synonyms: باغ (bağ), باغچه (bağçe), فردوس (firdevs)
* (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

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cennet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 777
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Paradisus”, 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 1240
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1661
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cennet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

جنت • (cinnet)
* madness, craziness, insanity, lunacy, the state of being mad, crazy, or insane
    Synonyms: دلیلك (delilik), دیوانه‌لك (divânelik), مجنونلق (mecnunluk), مجنونیت (mecnuniyet)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: cinnet

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cinnet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 822
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جنت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insania”, 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, columns 821-822
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1661
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cinnet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒan.ˈnat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒæn.nǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

### Noun

| Dari | جنت |
| Iranian Persian | جنت |
| Tajik | ҷаннат |
جَنَّت • (jannat)
* paradise
    Synonym: بِهِشْت (behešt)
* heaven
    Synonyms: آسْمان (āsmān), عرش (arš)

#### Descendants

* Dari: جَنَّت (jannat)
* Iranian Persian: جَنَّت (jannat)
* Tajik: ҷаннат (jannat)
* → Azerbaijani: cənnət
* → Baluchi: جنت (jannat)
* → Bengali: জান্নাত (jannat)
* → Chagatai:
** Uyghur: جەننەت (jennet)
** Uzbek: jannat
* → Gujarati: જન્નત (jannat)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जन्नत (jannat)
    Urdu: جَنَّت (jannat)
* → Kazakh: жәннат (jännat)
* → Marathi: जन्नत (jannat)
* → Ottoman Turkish: جنت (cennet)
** Turkish: cennet
** → Abkhaz: џьанаҭ (džanat)
** → Albanian: xhennet, xhenet
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: џѐнет, џѐннет, Џѐнет, Џѐннет
    Latin script: džènet, džènnet, Džènet, Džènnet
* → Pashto: جنت (ǰanát)
* → Turkmen: jennet

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat), borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi جنت (jnt /⁠janat⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒən.nət̪/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ət̪
* Hyphenation: جَنْ‧نَت

### Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)
* heaven, paradise
    Synonyms: بَہِشْت (bahiśt), فِرْدَوس (firdaus)
    Antonyms: جَہَنَّم (jahannam), دوزَخ (dozax)
* (technology) abacus

#### Declension

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

### Proper noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)
* a female given name from Arabic

### References

* ↑ “جنت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* “جنت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جنت”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

## Ushojo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu جَنَّت (jannat).

### Noun

جنت (jannat)
* heaven, paradise