Urdu

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Etymology

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Ezafe compound of سُنَّت (sunnat, Sunnah; practice; tradition) +‎ ِ (-i, of) +‎ اِبْرَاہِیمِی (ibrāhīmī, Abrahamic; relating to Abraham), literally the tradition of Abraham.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سُنَّتِ اِبْرَاہِیمی (sunnat-i ibrāhīmīm (Hindi spelling सुन्नत-ए-इब्राहीमी) (Islam, formal)

  1. qurbani; the sacrifice of livestock on Eid ul-Adha

Further reading

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  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 386