shahada

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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)
• Azerbaijani: şəhadət
• Bashkir: шәһәҙәт (şəhəźət)
• Bengali: শাহাদাহ্ (śahadah‌)
• Bulgarian: шехадет m (šehadet)
• Chinese:

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

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

  Northern Kurdish: şehadet (ku)

• Kyrgyz: шахада (şahada)
• Latvian: šahāda f
• Macedonian: ше́хадет m (šéhadet)
• Malay: syahadah (ms)
• Norwegian: sjahádah, shahada (no), shahada (no), shahadah
• Pashto: شهادت (ps) m (šahādát)
• Persian: شهادت (fa) (šahâdat)
• Polish: szahada (pl) f
• Portuguese: chahada f
• Romanian: șahada
• Russian: шаха́да f (šaxáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шехадет m

  Roman: šehadet (sh) m

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

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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

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Portuguese

Noun

shahada f (plural shahadas)

1. Alternative spelling of chahada

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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