أمة

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the root ء م م(ʔ-m-m); compare أُمّ(ʔumm, mother). Compare Hebrew אומה / אֻמָּה(ʾummā).

Noun[edit]

أُمَّة (ʔummaf (plural أُمَم(ʔumam)) (countable)

  1. community, people, nation
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:104:
      وَلْتَكُن مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنْكَرِ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
      waltakun minkum ʔummatun yadʕūna ʔilā l-ḵayri wayaʔmurūna bi-l-maʕrūfi wayanhawna ʕani l-munkari wa-ʔulāʔika humu l-mufliḥūna
      And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.
    • Al-Mutanabbi
      أَغَايَةُ الدِّينِ أَنْ تُحْفُوا شَوَارِبَكُمْ / يَا أُمَّةً ضَحِكَتْ مِنْ جَهْلِهَا الْأُمَمُ‎‎
      ʔaḡāyatu d-dīni ʔan tuḥfū šawāribakum / yā ʔummatan ḍaḥikat min jahlihā al-ʔumamu
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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  • English: ummah, umma
  • Indonesian: umat
  • Malay: umat, ummah
  • Swahili: umati, umma
إِمَاءٌ فِي سُوق

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *ʔamat-.

Noun[edit]

أَمَة (ʔamaf (plural إِمَاء(ʔimāʔ) or آمٍ(ʔāmin) or إِمْوَان(ʔimwān) or أُمْوَان(ʔumwān) or أَمَات(ʔamāt), masculine عَبْد(ʕabd)) (countable)

  1. female slave
Usage notes[edit]

The most common plural form is إِمَاء(ʔimāʔ), with the other forms being obsolete or poetical.

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