sunnah

See also: Sunnah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”).

Noun

sunnah (countable and uncountable, plural sunnahs)

1. (An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.

Alternative forms

• sunna

Related terms

• Sunni

Translations

custom, system, way of life

• Albanian: synnet m
• Arabic: سُنَّة (ar) f (sunna)
• Azerbaijani: sünnət
• Bengali: সুন্নত (bn) (śunnot), সুন্নৎ (śunnot)
• Chechen: суннат (sunnat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖行／圣行 (shèngxíng, shèngxìng)

• Dhivehi: ސުއްނަތް (sunnat̊)
• Finnish: sunna (fi)
• Georgian: სუნა (suna)
• Hausa: sunnā̀ f
• Hindi: सुन्नत (hi) f (sunnat)
• Italian: sunna f
• Japanese: スンナ (sunna)
• Kazakh: сүннет (sünnet)
• Korean: 순나 (sunna)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sinet (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сүннөт (ky) (sünnöt)
• Malay: sunnah
• Pashto: سنت (ps) m (sonát)
• Persian: سنت (fa) (sonnat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: суна f

  Roman: suna (sh) f

• Tajik: суннат (tg) (sunnat)
• Tatar: сөннәт (tt) (sönnät)
• Turkish: sünnet (tr)
• Urdu: سنت f (sunnat)
• Uyghur: سۈننەت (sünnet)
• Uzbek: sunnat (uz)

Muhammad's way of life

• Bengali: সুন্নত (bn) (śunnot), সুন্নৎ (śunnot)
• Czech: sunna f
• Esperanto: sunao
• German: Sunna f
• Gujarati: સુન્નત f (sunnat)
• Hindi: सुन्नत (hi) f (sunnat)
• Japanese: スンナ (sunna)
• Russian: су́нна (ru) f (súnna)
• Swedish: sunna (sv)

Further reading

• “sunnah”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.