نماز

Chagatai

Etymology

From Classical Persian نماز (namāz).

Noun

نماز (namaz)

1. (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^[1], 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))

1. prayer, orison, precation, an act of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity

   Synonym: دعا (duʼâ)

2. (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^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 962
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نماز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], Vienna, column 5255
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “namaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نماز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], 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^(key): [na.ˈmɑːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.mɑ́ːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.mɑ́ːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nä.mɑ́ːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nä.mɔ́ːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [næ.mɒ́ːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nä.mɔ́z]

Readings
Classical reading?	namāz
Dari reading?	namāz
Iranian reading?	namâz
Tajik reading?	namoz

Noun

Dari	نماز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	намоз

نماز • (namâz) (plural نمازها (namâz-hâ))

1. 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^(key): /nə.mɑːz/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• (Europe, Overseas) IPA^(key): /nɪ.mɑːz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• Hyphenation: نَ‧ماز

Noun

نَماز • (namāz) f (Hindi spelling नमाज़)

1. (Islam) salat, prayer (worship)

   Synonym: صَلات (salāt)

2. (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”)

Further reading

More information

• “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, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC