zakat /zəˈkɑːt 
, zəˈkat / ▸ noun [mass noun] annual payment of a certain proportion of personal wealth for charitable and religious purposes, obligatory under Islamic law for every adult Muslim of sufficient means and one of the Five Pillars of Islam. – ORIGIN via Persian and Urdu from Arabic zakā(t) ‘almsgiving’.
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