[Burmese.] A public hall or shed for worship, meetings, or shelter.
1823. Mrs. A. Judson, Amer. Bapt. Miss. Burman Emp., 145. The Zayat, the Burman name for a place for public worship, was erected.
1852. Pierson, Miss. Mem., 89. In April 1819 the first zayat was opened for Christian worship.
1906. Sir J. George Scott, in Blackw. Mag., Aug., 230–1. They went straight to the zayat, the strangers’ rest-house.
