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Jumu'ah en · NOUN

Etymology

From Arabic جمعة (jumuʕa), as in الجمعة (al-jumuʕa).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The main congregational prayers, held at noon on a Friday.
   • [T]here was a reasonably priced foot of land from which the raindbow could be seen at night every third jum'a in the month of Rabbi-ul-aker. 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 195:
   • Then, […] the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel-dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier-muezzin calling his saddle-weary brothers to a belated Jumuah. 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 57:

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