shahada

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda, “witnessing”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɑˈhɑdə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: sha‧ha‧da

Noun

shahada (usually uncountable, plural shahadas or shahadat)

1. (Islam, especially theosophy) The Islamic declaration of belief in the unity of God, one of the five pillars, the formal content of which is the kalima (a minimal Islamic creed).

Translations

Islamic declaration of belief

• Albanian: shehadet m
• Arabic: شَهَادَة (ar) f (šahāda)
• Armenian: շահադա (šahada)
• Assamese: শ্বাহাদাহ (sahadah)
• Azerbaijani: şəhadət, kəlmeyi-şəhadət
• Bashkir: шәһәҙәт (şəhəźət)
• Bengali: শাহাদাহ্ (śahadah‌)
• Bulgarian: шехадет m (šehadet)
• Chechen: шахӏадат (šahadat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清真言 (qīngzhēnyán), 作證詞／作证词 (zuòzhèngcí), 作證言／作证言 (zuòzhèngyán)

• Danish: shahadah
• Dhivehi: ޝަހާދަތް (šahādat̊)
• Dutch: shahadah
• Esperanto: ŝahado
• Estonian: šahada
• Finnish: šahada (fi)
• French: chahada (fr) f, shahada f
• Georgian: შაჰადა (šahada)
• German: Schahada f
• Greek: σαχάντα f (sachánta)
• Hausa: shahada f
• Hebrew: שהאדה f (shahada)
• Hindi: शहादत (hi) f (śahādat)
• Indonesian: syahadat (id)
• Italian: shahada f
• Japanese: シャハーダ (ja) (shahāda)
• Kazakh: шаһада (şahada)
• Korean: 샤하다 (syahada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şehadet (ku), şehade (ku)

• Kyrgyz: шахада (şahada)
• Latvian: šahāda f
• Macedonian: шехадет m (šehadet)
• Malay: syahadah (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjahádah, shahada (no), shahada (no), shahadah

• Ottoman Turkish: شهادت (şehadet)
• Pashto: شهادت (ps) m (šahādat)
• Persian: شهادت (fa) (šahâdat)
• Polish: szahada (pl) f
• Portuguese: chahada f
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹਾਦਾ (śahādā)
• Romanian: șahada f
• Russian: шаха́да (ru) f (šaxáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шеха́дет m

  Roman: šehádet (sh) m

• Spanish: shahada f
• Swahili: shahada (sw)
• Tajik: шаҳодат (šahodat)
• Tatar: шәһадәт (şähadät)
• Turkish: şehadet (tr), kelime-i şehadet
• Turkmen: şahadat
• Urdu: شَہادَت f (śahādat)
• Uyghur: شاھادەت (shahadet)
• Uzbek: shahodat (uz)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda, “witnessing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃà.háː.dàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃə̀.háː.dàː]

Noun

shàhādā̀ f (plural shahādōdī, possessed form shàhādàr̃)

1. (Islam) shahada
2. (Islam) martyrdom, death in a holy war
3. certificate

   Synonym: satifikat

Portuguese

Noun

shahada f (plural shahadas)

1. Alternative spelling of chahada

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

shahada (n class, plural shahada)

1. testament, evidence
2. diploma, certificate
3. (Islam) shahada (declaration of faith)

Synonyms

• (certificate): cheti

Derived terms

• kidole cha shahada

Related terms

• shahidi

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• shahadah, shahaadah
• syahada

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَهَادَة (šahāda, “witnessing”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʃaˈhada/, [ʃɐˈha.dɐ]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: sha‧ha‧da

Noun

shahada (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜑᜇ) (Islam)

1. shahada (Islamic declaration of belief)