almsgiving
almsgiving noun: the act of voluntarily giving alms, of making donations to the poor, charity.
Noun
almsgiving (countable and uncountable, plural almsgivings)
- The act of voluntarily giving alms, of making donations to the poor, charity.
almsgiving meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Thai
almsgiving in Tamil
- பொருள் ஈகை
almsgiving in Urdu
- Almsgiving; zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam
- زکوۃ zakát
almsgiving in Bengali
- the act of voluntarily giving alms
- খয়রাত khoẏorat
almsgiving in Thai
- the act of voluntarily giving alms
- ทาน taan
Forms of almsgiving
| plural | almsgivings |
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Origin of almsgiving
From alms + giving.
Questions about almsgiving
- What does almsgiving mean?
- Almsgiving means the act of voluntarily giving alms, of making donations to the poor, charity.
- What is almsgiving in Tamil?
- Almsgiving in Tamil is பொருள் ஈகை. See Almsgiving meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is almsgiving?
- Almsgiving is a noun.
- What is the plural of almsgiving?
- The plural of almsgiving is almsgivings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: almsgiving (page history and authors); almsgiving (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); زکوۃ (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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