imam
English edit
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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)
- 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.
- (Twelver Shi'ism) One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.
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Albanian edit
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imam m (plural imamë, definite imami, definite plural imamët)
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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)
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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
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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”).
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imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)
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- “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)
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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”).
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imam
- leader
- (Islam) imam
- (Catholicism) priest
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- “imam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
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imam m (invariable)
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īmam
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun edit
imam m pers
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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imam
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (“imam”), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
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imam m (plural imami)
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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
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imam
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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
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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imam (n class, plural imam)
- Alternative form of imamu
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Etymology edit
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
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imam c
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Declension of imam | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | imam | imamen | imamer | imamerna |
Genitive | imams | imamens | imamers | imamernas |
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- imam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- imam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- imam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”), possibly through English or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.
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imam (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜋ᜔)
See also edit
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- “imam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 2018
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun edit
imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)
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Nominative | imam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | imam | imamlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | imamları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | imama | imamlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | imamda | imamlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | imamdan | imamlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | imamın | imamların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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imam