different between zayat vs zakat

English

Etymology

From Burmese ???? (ja.rap).

Noun

zayat (plural zayats)

1. A building in Burma used for meetings and religious assemblies and to give shelter to travellers.
   • 1855, Emily Chubbuck Judson, Memoir of Sarah B. Judson: member of the American mission to Burmah (page 16)

     There are always several zayats in the neighborhood of a kyoung, to which the devotees of Boodh resort to listen to their priests.

English

Alternative forms

• zakah, zakaah, zak?h, zikat/Zikat, Zikât

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ????? (zakât), from Arabic ??????? (zak?h), from earlier Arabic ???????? (zak?h).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

zakat (uncountable)

1. (Islam) Almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 27:

     Amongst these stations is the well-known place called Qatya, where zakat is collected from the merchants, their goods are examined and their baggage most rigorously searched.

Translations

Anagrams

• Kaatz

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay zakat, from Classical Malay zakat, from Arabic ???????? (zak?h).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za.kat/
• Hyphenation: za?kat

Noun

zakat (first-person possessive zakatku, second-person possessive zakatmu, third-person possessive zakatnya)

1. (Islam) Almsgiving, one of the five pillars of Islam; zakat.