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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
zakat is a noun meaning "the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship". It carries one recorded sense.
the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship
“the zakat is earmarked for the poor and disabled”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zakat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.