sunnah

See also: Sunnah

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sunnah (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• Sunni

Translations

custom, system, way of life

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

  Mandarin: 聖行／圣行, 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)
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• 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 (śunnot), সুন্নৎ (śunnot)
• Czech: sunna f
• Esperanto: sunao
• German: Sunna f
• Hindi: सुन्नत (hi) f (sunnat)
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• Russian: су́нна (ru) f (súnna)

Further reading

• “sunnah”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.