# نماز
## Chagatai
### Etymology

From Classical Persian نماز (namāz).

### Noun

نماز (namaz)
* (Islam) prayer, salat

#### Derived terms

* جاىنماز (jāynamāz, “prayer mat”)
* نماز اوتاماک (namāz ötämäk, “to pray”)

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: ناماز (namaz)
* Uzbek:
    Latin script: namoz
    Cyrillic script: намоз

### Further reading

* Schluessel, Eric (2018) “نماز”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎, Michigan Publishing, page 198

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نماز (namāz, “prayer”), from Middle Persian 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *námah.

### Noun

نماز • (namâz) (definite accusative نمازی (namâzı), plural نمازلر (namâzlar))
* prayer, orison, precation, an act of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity
    Synonym: دعا (duʼâ)
* (Islam) salat, namaz, the obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day
    Synonym: صلات (salat)

#### Derived terms

* نماز آیلری (namâz ayları, “the months of special divine services for women”)
* نماز بزی (namâz bezi, “cloth spread out on which to perform worship”)
* نماز بوزان (namâz bozan, “anything that invalidates the divine worship”)
* نماز قیلمق (namâz kılmak, “to perform the salat”)
* نمازگاه (namâzgâh, “an open-air oratory”)
* نمازگذار (namâzgüzâr, “one who performs the salat”)
* نمازی قیلنمق (namâzı kılınmak, “to perform a funeral prayer”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: namaz
* → Albanian: namaz
* → Crimean Tatar: namaz
* → English: namaz
* → Polish: namaz
* → Romanian: namaz
* → Russian: нама́з (namáz)
* → Serbo-Croatian: nàmāz / на̀ма̄з

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “namaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3486
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “namâz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 962
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نماز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1287
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Preces”, 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 1356
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نماز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5255
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “namaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نماز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2104

## Persian
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭮𐭢𐭣𐭤 (OSGDE /⁠namāz⁠/, “reverence, prostration, prayer”) / 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), from Proto-Iranian *námah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *námas (“to bow, prostrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *némos (“(place of) sacrifice, worship”). Compare Sanskrit नमस् (namas), Ancient Greek νέμος (némos), Latin nemus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [na.ˈmɑːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nä.mɑ́ːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nä.mɑ́ːz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [nä.mɑ́ːz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [nä.mɔ́ːz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [næ.mɒ́ːz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [nä.mɔ́z]

### Noun

| Dari | نماز |
| Iranian Persian | نماز |
| Tajik | намоз |
نماز • (namâz) (plural نمازها (namâz-hâ))
* regular, prescribed prayer; (Islam) salat
    نماز جمعه ― namâz-e jom'e ― Friday prayers

#### Usage notes

* Prayers that are not fixed by religious law are called دعا (do'â).

#### Related terms

* جای نماز (jây namâz, “prayer mat”)
* نماز بردن (namâz bordan)
* نماز خواندن (namâz xândan)
* نماز کردن (namâz kardan)
* نماز گذاشتن (namâz gozâštan)

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: নামাজ (namaz)
* → Azerbaijani: namaz
* → Bashkir: намаҙ (namaź)
* → Bengali: নামাজ (namaz)
* → Mandarin: 乃瑪子 / 乃玛子 (nǎimǎzi)
* → Georgian: ნამაზი (namazi)
* → Gujarati: નમાજ (namāj), નમાઝ (namājh)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: नमाज़ (namāz)
    Urdu: نماز (namāz)
* → Judeo-Tat: нумаз (numaz), нимаз (nimaz) ("synagogue")
* → Kazakh: намаз (namaz)
* → Middle Armenian: նամազ (namaz)
** Armenian: նամազ (namaz)
* → Old Gujarati: निमाज (nimāja)
** Gujarati: નિમાજ (nimāj), નિવાજ (nivāj)
** Marwari: निमाज (nimāj), निवाज (nivāj)
* → Ottoman Turkish: نماز (namâz)
** Turkish: namaz
** → Albanian: namaz
** → Crimean Tatar: namaz
** → English: namaz
** → Polish: namaz
** → Romanian: namaz
** → Russian: нама́з (namáz)
** → Serbo-Croatian: nàmāz / на̀ма̄з
* → Punjabi: نماز (namāz)
* → Sindhi: نماز (namāz)
* → Tatar: намаз (namaz)
* → Thai: ละหมาด (lá-màat), นมาซ
* → Uyghur: ناماز (namaz)
* → Uzbek: namoz

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “namāz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَمَاز (namāz). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi نماز (namāz). Doublet of نَمَسْتے (namaste).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /nə.mɑːz/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* (Europe, Overseas) IPA: /nɪ.mɑːz/
* Rhymes: -ɑːz
* Hyphenation: نَ‧ماز

### Noun

نَماز • (namāz) f (Hindi spelling नमाज़)
* (Islam) salat, prayer (worship)
    Synonym: صَلات (salāt)
* (figuratively) devotion, idolization

#### Declension

Declension of نماز :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | نَماز (namāz) | نَمازیں (namāzẽ) |
| oblique | نَماز (namāz) | نَمازوں (namāzõ) |
| vocative | نَماز (namāz) | نَمازو (namāzo) |

#### Related terms

* جائے نَمَاز (jāe namāz, “prayer mat, prayer rug”)
* جَا نَمَاز (jā namāz, “prayer mat, prayer rug”)
* نَماز اَدا کَرْنا (namāz adā karnā, “to pray”)
* نَمَاز پَڑْھنا (namāz paṛhnā, “to pray”)
* نَمَاز گاہ (“prayer room”)
* نَمَازی (“prayerful, devout”)

### References

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

### Further reading

* “نماز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “نماز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “نماز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “نماز”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “نماز”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC