زكاة

Etymology
Normalized spelling of earlier, from /  otherwise attested in the senses of “merit”, “gain; victory” from base stem  but not in the sense of “alms”, however in the geminate stem in 🇨🇬 also as “to give possession”, “to give merit” and ultimately “to give charity”. Likewise the noun is not attested but can be inferred from Arabic to have borne in Aramaic the sense of “purity or purification from guilt” as in Palestinian Aramaic the base and geminate stems meant “to be innocent” and “to judge innocent” respectively.

The Arabic root is in part from this noun.

Noun

 * 1)  zakat,  almsgiving (one of the five pillars of Islam)
 * 2) purification from excess, to free from inefficiencies, to dispense filth
 * 3) purifying (of the soul)
 * 4)  in piety, in purity