جنت

See also: جنب, خنب, حنت, and خنت

Arabic

Verb

جنت (form I)

1. جَنَّتْ (jannat) /d͡ʒan.nat/: third-person feminine singular past active of جَنَّ (janna)
2. 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)

1. paradise, heaven

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Ottoman Turkish جنت

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

Noun

جنت • (cennet) (plural جنات (cennat))

1. (originally) garden, park, any outdoor, luxuriant area where plants are grown for ornamental purposes

   Synonyms: باغ (bağ), باغچه (bağçe), فردوس (firdevs)

2. (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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cennet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Etymology 2

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

Noun

جنت • (cinnet)

1. 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^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], 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^[8], 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^[9], Vienna, column 1661
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cinnet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَّة (janna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒan.ˈnat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæn.nǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒän.nǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	jannat
Dari reading?	jannat
Iranian reading?	jannat
Tajik reading?	jannat

Noun

Dari	جنت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷаннат

جَنَّت • (jannat)

1. paradise

   Synonym: بِهِشْت (behešt)

2. 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

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Urdu جَنَّت (jannat)

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^(key): /d͡ʒən.nət̪/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: جَنْ‧نَت

Noun

جَنَّت • (jannat) f (Hindi spelling जन्नत)

1. heaven, paradise

   Synonyms: بَہِشْت (bahiśt), فِرْدَوس (firdaus)

   Antonyms: جَہَنَّم (jahannam), دوزَخ (dozax)

2. (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)

1. a female given name from Arabic

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

Etymology tree

Arabic جَنَّة (janna)bor.

Classical Persian جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Urdu جَنَّت (jannat)bor.

Ushojo جنت

Borrowed from Urdu جَنَّت (jannat).

Noun

جنت (jannat)

1. heaven, paradise