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zakat
noun
[ zəˈkɑːt ]
• payment made annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property and used for charitable and religious purposes, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Origin:
via Persian and Urdu from Arabic zakā(t ) ‘almsgiving’.
