Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of جَهْم بِن صَفْوَان (jahm bin ṣafwān, Jahm bin Safwan) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

Adjective edit

جَهْمِيّ (jahmiyy) (feminine جَهْمِيَّة (jahmiyya), masculine plural جَهْمِيُّونَ (jahmiyyūna), feminine plural جَهْمِيَّات (jahmiyyāt))

  1. (historical) Jahmite, related to a medieval school of kalam
  2. (Islam, religious slur) a heretic whose religious beliefs or advocated doctrines include an unscriptural negation of an attribute of God in Islam
    Synonym: مُعَطِّل (muʕaṭṭil, a canceler or negator of an attribute of God in Islam)
    Coordinate terms: مُشَبِّه (mušabbih, a comparer of God to what is not God in Islam), مُجَسِّم (mujassim, an advocate of cataphasis who supposedly affirms corporeality or humanity about God in Islam; an anthropomorphist), حَشْوِيّ (ḥašwiyy)

Declension edit