imam
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːm
Noun
[edit]imam (plural imams)
- (Islam) One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
- 1901, John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp:
- Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an Imam. (footnote: The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached)
- 2001 May 10, London Review of Books:
- But then there's a Christian cleric and an imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department.
- 2004 October 7, London Review of Books, page 3:
- In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.
- 2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
- (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
- Hypernym: cleric
- (Twelver Shi'ism) One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.
Derived terms
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Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m (plural imamë, definite imami, definite plural imamët)
Declension
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | имам | |
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Abjad | classical sp | امام |
new sp | ایمام |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of imam | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | imam |
imamlar | ||||||
definite accusative | imamı |
imamları | ||||||
dative | imama |
imamlara | ||||||
locative | imamda |
imamlarda | ||||||
ablative | imamdan |
imamlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | imamın |
imamların |
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m (plural imams)
Further reading
[edit]- “imam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
[edit]imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “imam” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m or f by sense (plural imams)
Further reading
[edit]- “imam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Malay imam, from Arabic إمام (ʔimām, “leader, imam”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “imam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m (invariable)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]īmam
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
[edit]imam m pers
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]imam
Further reading
[edit]- imam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- imam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (“imam”), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m (plural imami)
Declension
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun
[edit]ìmām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м)
Declension
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]imam (Cyrillic spelling имам)
- first-person singular present of imati (I have)
Slovene
[edit]Verb
[edit]imam
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam m (plural imames)
Further reading
[edit]- “imam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam (n class, plural imam)
- Alternative form of imamu
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
[edit]imam c
Declension
[edit]Declension of imam | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | imam | imamen | imamer | imamerna |
Genitive | imams | imamens | imamers | imamernas |
References
[edit]- imam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- imam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- imam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”), possibly through English or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: i‧mam
Noun
[edit]imám or imam (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜋ᜔) (Islam, theology)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “imam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun
[edit]imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | imam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | imam | imamlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | imamları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | imama | imamlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | imamda | imamlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | imamdan | imamlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | imamın | imamların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zazaki
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imam
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ء م م
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɑːm
- Rhymes:English/ɑːm/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Islam
- English terms with quotations
- en:Occupations
- Albanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian terms derived from Arabic
- Albanian 2-syllable words
- Albanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian masculine nouns
- sq:Islam
- Azerbaijani terms borrowed from Arabic
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Arabic
- Azerbaijani terms with audio links
- Azerbaijani lemmas
- Azerbaijani nouns
- az:Islam
- Catalan terms derived from Arabic
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Islam
- Danish terms derived from Arabic
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Islam
- Dutch terms derived from Arabic
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Islam
- French terms borrowed from Arabic
- French terms derived from Arabic
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French nouns with multiple genders
- French masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Indonesian terms derived from Arabic
- Indonesian terms derived from the Arabic root ء م م
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Islam
- id:Catholicism
- Indonesian terms with rare senses
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/am
- Rhymes:Italian/am/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Islam
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin adjective forms
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/imam
- Rhymes:Polish/imam/2 syllables
- Polish terms derived from Arabic
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- pl:Islam
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish verb forms
- Romanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Romanian terms derived from Arabic
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Romanian/am
- Rhymes:Romanian/am/2 syllables
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- ro:Islam
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Arabic
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Islam
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian verb forms
- Slovene non-lemma forms
- Slovene verb forms
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/am
- Rhymes:Spanish/am/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/an
- Rhymes:Spanish/an/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Islam
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili n class nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Arabic
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Islam
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Arabic
- Tagalog terms derived from Arabic
- Tagalog terms derived from the Arabic root ء م م
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/am
- Rhymes:Tagalog/am/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imam
- Rhymes:Tagalog/imam/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Islam
- tl:Theology
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Arabic
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns
- tr:Islam
- Zazaki terms derived from Arabic
- Zazaki terms with IPA pronunciation
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki nouns
- zza:Islam
- Zazaki literary terms