# جامع
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Derived from the active participle of جَمَعَ (jamaʕa, “to collect, gather”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒaː.miʕ/
** (Egypt) IPA: /ɡaː.miʕ/

#### Adjective

جَامِع • (jāmiʕ) (feminine جَامِعَة (jāmiʕa), masculine plural جَامِعُون (jāmiʕūn), feminine plural جَامِعَات (jāmiʕāt) or جَوَامِع (jawāmiʕ), elative أَجْمَع (ʔajmaʕ))
* comprehensive, extensive, broad, general, universal

##### Declension
#### Noun

جَامِع • (jāmiʕ) m (plural جَوَامِع (jawāmiʕ))
* collector
* compiler (of books)
* typesetter, compositor
* (Islam) congregational mosque
    الْجَامِع الْأَزْهَر ― al-jāmiʕ al-ʔazhar ― Al-Azhar [Congregational] Mosque

##### Synonyms

* مَسْجِد (masjid)

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: جامع (gāmiʕ)
* → Lishana Deni: גׄימע (jemaʿ)
* → Persian: جامع (jâme')
* → Ottoman Turkish: جامع (cami)
** Turkish: cami
** → Albanian: xhami
** → Armenian: ճամի (čami)
** → Bulgarian: джами́я (džamíja)
** → Greek: τζαμί (tzamí)
** → Hungarian: dzsámi
** → Ladino: djami
** → Laz: ჯამე (came), ნჯამე (ncame) — Arkabi
** → Macedonian: џамија (džamija)
** → Romanian: geamie
** → Serbo-Croatian: džámija, џа́мија
** → Uyghur: جامى (jami)

#### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “جمع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒaː.ma.ʕa/

#### Verb

جَامَعَ • (jāmaʕa) III (non-past يُجَامِعُ (yujāmiʕu), verbal noun جِمَاع (jimāʕ) or مُجَامَعَة (mujāmaʕa))
* to copulate with, to have intercourse with
    جَامَعَ زَوْجَتَه ― jāmaʕa zawjatah ― He had intercourse with his wife.
* to congregate

##### Descendants

* → Swahili: jamii

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaːmɪʕ/

### Noun

جامع • (gāmiʕ) m (plural جوامع (gawāmiʕ))
* mosque

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒaː.miʕ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

جامع • (jāmiʕ) m (plural جوامع (jwāmaʕ))
* mosque

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ, “mosque”), a derivation from the active participle of جَمَعَ (jamaʕa, “to collect, gather”).

### Noun

جامع • (camiʼ)
* mosque, a place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret
    Synonym: مسجد (mescid)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: cami
* → Albanian: xhami
* → Armenian: ճամի (čami)
* → Bulgarian: джами́я (džamíja)
* → Greek: τζαμί (tzamí)
* → Hungarian: dzsámi
* → Ladino: djami
* → Laz: ჯამე (came), ნჯამე (ncame) — Arkabi
* → Macedonian: џамија (džamija)
* → Romanian: geamie
* → Serbo-Croatian: džámija, џа́мија
* → Uyghur: جامى (jami)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cami2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 748
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “câmî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 164
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جامع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Templum”, 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 1655
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جامع”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1561
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cami”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جامع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 636

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ), from جَمَعَ (jamaʕa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.miʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.me̞ʔ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.me̞ʔ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒɑː.meː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒɔː.meː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɒː.meʔ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒɔ.meʔ]

### Adjective

جامع • (jâme') (comparative جامع‌تَر (jâme'-tar), superlative جامع‌تَرین (jâme'-tarin))
* comprehensive
* (Islam) (of a mosque) congregational or public

#### Derived terms

* جامعیت (jâme'iyyat)

#### Descendants

* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: जामे (jāme)
    Urdu: جامِع (jāmi')

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒaː.meʕ/, [ˈʒæː.mɪʕ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

جامع • (jāmeʕ) m (plural جوامع (jawāmeʕ))
* mosque
    Synonym: مسجد (masjed)