Baháʼí

See also: bahai, Bahai, Baha'i, and Bahá'í

English

Alternative forms

• Bahá'í, Baha'i, Bahai

Etymology

From Classical Persian بَهَائِی (bahā'ī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈhɑː.i/

Noun

Baháʼí (plural Baháʼís)

1. a follower of the Baháʼí Faith.
2. a follower of Baháʼu'lláh.

Hypernyms

• religionist, Abrahamist

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; agnostic,‎ Asatruar,‎ atheist,‎ Baháʼí,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Druze,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Rodnover,‎ Samaritan,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Yahwist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Translations

follower of the Baháʼí Faith / follower of Baháʼu'lláh

• Arabic: بَهَائِيّ m (bahāʔiyy)
• Armenian: բահայի (bahayi)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bahai (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: bahaano
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: bahailainen
• French: bahaï (fr) m, bahaïe (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bahai (de) m or f
• Hebrew: בָּהָאִי m (baha'í), בָּהָאִית f (baha'ít)
• Hindi: बहाई m (bahāī)
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: بهائی (bahâ'i)
• Polish: bahaj m
• Urdu: بہائی (bahāī)

Adjective

Baháʼí (not comparable)

1. pertaining to Baháʼís or beliefs held in the Baháʼí Faith

Translations

pertaining to Baháʼís or beliefs held in the Baháʼí Faith

• Arabic: بَهَائِيّ (bahāʔiyy)
• Armenian: բահայական (bahayakan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴哈伊 (zh) (bāhā'ī)

• Esperanto: Bahaa
• Finnish: bahailainen
• Hebrew: בָּהָאִי m (baha'í)
• Hindi: बहाई (bahāī)
• Persian: بهایی (fa) (bahâyi), بهائی (bahâ'i)
• Polish: bahajski
• Russian: баха́и m (baxái)

Usage notes

Practitioners of the faith have a preferred orthography for religious terms; this spelling represents their preferred version of Baháʼí.

See also

• 🟙
• Baháʼí Faith, Bahá'í Faith, Baha'i Faith, Bahai Faith
• Baháʼísm, Bahá'ísm, Baha'ism, Bahaism

Anagrams

• Abiah, Bahia