سنت ابراہیمی

Urdu

Etymology

Ezafe compound of سُنَّت (sunnat, “Sunnah; practice; tradition”) +‎ ِ (-i, “of”) +‎ اِبْرَاہِیمِی (ibrāhīmī, “Abrahamic; relating to Abraham”), literally “the tradition of Abraham”.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sʊn.nət̪.eː ɪb.ɾɑː.ɦiː.miː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

سُنَّتِ اِبْرَاہِیمی • (sunnat-i ibrāhīmī) m (Hindi spelling सुन्नत-ए-इब्राहीमी) (Islam, formal)

1. qurbani; the sacrifice of livestock on Eid ul-Adha

Further reading

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سنت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 386