مجتمع

Arabic

Root
ج م ع (j-m-ʕ)

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb اِجْتَمَعَ (ijtamaʕa).

Pronunciation

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Noun

مُجْتَمَع • (mujtamaʕ) m (plural مُجْتَمَعَات (mujtamaʕāt))

1. place of assembly
2. (in the general sense): society

   يَلْعَبُ ٱلتَّعْلِيمُ دَوْرًا هَامًّا فِي تَنْمِيَةِ ٱلْمُجْتَمَعَاتِ.

   yalʕabu t-taʕlīmu dawran hāmman fī tanmiyati l-mujtamaʕāti.

   Education plays a crucial role in the development of societies.

3. assembly
4. community

Declension

Declension of noun مُجْتَمَع (mujtamaʕ)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مُجْتَمَع mujtamaʕ	الْمُجْتَمَع al-mujtamaʕ	مُجْتَمَع mujtamaʕ
Nominative	مُجْتَمَعٌ mujtamaʕun	الْمُجْتَمَعُ al-mujtamaʕu	مُجْتَمَعُ mujtamaʕu
Accusative	مُجْتَمَعًا mujtamaʕan	الْمُجْتَمَعَ al-mujtamaʕa	مُجْتَمَعَ mujtamaʕa
Genitive	مُجْتَمَعٍ mujtamaʕin	الْمُجْتَمَعِ al-mujtamaʕi	مُجْتَمَعِ mujtamaʕi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مُجْتَمَعَيْن mujtamaʕayn	الْمُجْتَمَعَيْن al-mujtamaʕayn	مُجْتَمَعَيْ mujtamaʕay
Nominative	مُجْتَمَعَانِ mujtamaʕāni	الْمُجْتَمَعَانِ al-mujtamaʕāni	مُجْتَمَعَا mujtamaʕā
Accusative	مُجْتَمَعَيْنِ mujtamaʕayni	الْمُجْتَمَعَيْنِ al-mujtamaʕayni	مُجْتَمَعَيْ mujtamaʕay
Genitive	مُجْتَمَعَيْنِ mujtamaʕayni	الْمُجْتَمَعَيْنِ al-mujtamaʕayni	مُجْتَمَعَيْ mujtamaʕay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مُجْتَمَعَات mujtamaʕāt	الْمُجْتَمَعَات al-mujtamaʕāt	مُجْتَمَعَات mujtamaʕāt
Nominative	مُجْتَمَعَاتٌ mujtamaʕātun	الْمُجْتَمَعَاتُ al-mujtamaʕātu	مُجْتَمَعَاتُ mujtamaʕātu
Accusative	مُجْتَمَعَاتٍ mujtamaʕātin	الْمُجْتَمَعَاتِ al-mujtamaʕāti	مُجْتَمَعَاتِ mujtamaʕāti
Genitive	مُجْتَمَعَاتٍ mujtamaʕātin	الْمُجْتَمَعَاتِ al-mujtamaʕāti	مُجْتَمَعَاتِ mujtamaʕāti

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “مجتمع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “مجتمع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُجْتَمَع (mujtamaʕ)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mud͡ʒ.ta.maʔ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊd͡ʒ.t̪ʰä.mäʔ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊd͡ʒ.t̪ʰä.mäʔ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊd͡ʒ.t̪ʰä.mɑː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mud͡ʒ.t̪ʰä.mɔː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mod͡ʒ.t̪ʰæ.mæʔ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mud͡ʒ.t̪ʰä.mäʔ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mujtama'
Dari reading?	mujtama'
Iranian reading?	mojtama'
Tajik reading?	mujtamaʾ

Dari	مجتمع
Iranian Persian
Tajik	муҷтамаъ

Adjective

مجتمع • (mojtame') (comparative مجتمع‌تَر (mojtame'-tar), superlative مجتمع‌تَرین (mojtame'-tarin))

1. assembled, convened
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 184:

     چون از ایشان مجتمع بینی دو یار
     هم یکی باشند و هم ششصد هزار

     čōn az īšān mutjama' bīnī dū yār
     ham yakī bāšand ham šašsad hazār

     When you see two of them met together as friends,
     they are one, and at the same time (they are) six hundred thousand.

2. confederate, united

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مجتمع”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim