Sunni

See also: sunni and Suni

English

Etymology

From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊni

Adjective

Sunni (comparative more Sunni, superlative most Sunni)

1. Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah.

   Coordinate term: Shia

Translations

related to the Sunni branch of Islam

• Bengali: সুন্নি (śunni)
• Catalan: sunnita
• Czech: sunnitský
• Finnish: sunnilainen
• German: sunnitisch (de)
• Hindi: सुन्नी (hi) (sunnī), चहार (hi) (cahār), चारयारी (hi) (cāryārī)
• Hungarian: szunnita
• Kurdish:
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• Portuguese: sunita (pt)
• Russian: сунни́тский (ru) (sunnítskij)
• Slovene: sunitski
• Spanish: sunita m or f, suní
• Turkish: Sünni (tr)

Noun

Sunni (countable and uncountable, plural Sunnis)

1. (countable) A follower of Sunnism.

   Synonyms: Sunnite, (less common) Bukharist, (less common) Hadithist, (offensive) Bakri, (political) Sunnist, (offensive) Nasibi

   Hypernym: Muslim

   Coordinate terms: Shia, Sufi, Ahle Quran, Ahmadi, 5 percenter, Quranist, Mu'tazila, Ibadi, Nation of Islam, Mahdavi, Moorish Scientist, ghair muqallid, Muwahhid

2. (uncountable) Sunni Islam.

Derived terms

• anti-Sunnism
• de-Sunnification
• inter-Sunni
• neo-Sunni
• non-Sunni
• pan-Sunni
• pan-Sunnism
• pro-Sunni
• Sunni belt
• Sunnic
• Sunnicentric
• Sunnicidal
• sunnicide
• Sunnidom
• Sunnify
• Sunniness
• Sunniphobia
• Sunnism
• Sunnist
• Sunnistan
• Sunnitic
• Sunnitization
• Sunnitize
• Sunnization
• Sunnize
• un-Sunni

 

Translations

follower of the Sunni branch of Islam

• Arabic: سُنِّيّ m (sunniyy)
• Bengali: সুন্নি (śunni)
• Catalan: sunnita ?
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遜尼／逊尼 (zh), 逊尼 (zh) (Xùnní)

• Czech: sunnita m
• Danish: sunni c
• Finnish: sunnalainen (fi), sunnilainen, sunni (fi)
• French: sunnite (fr) m
• German: Sunnite m, Sunnit (de) m, Sunnit (de) m
• Hindi: सुन्नी (hi) m (sunnī), चहार (hi) m (cahār), चारयारी (hi) f (cāryārī)
• Japanese: スンニ (sunni)
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• Kurdish:
• Marathi: सुन्नी ? (sunnī)
• Persian: سنی (fa) (sonni)
• Polish: sunnita (pl) m
• Portuguese: sunita (pt) m or f
• Russian: сунни́т (ru) m (sunnít)
• Slovene: sunit m
• Spanish: sunita m or f, suní m or f
• Turkish: Sünni (tr)
• Ukrainian: суні́т m (sunít)

Sunni Islam, a branch of Islam

• Arabic: سُنَّة (ar) f (sunna)
• Bengali: সুন্নি (śunni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遜尼派／逊尼派 (zh) (Xùnnípài), 逊尼派 (zh) (Xùnnípài)

• Finnish: sunnalaisuus (fi), sunnilaisuus (fi)
• French: sunnisme (fr) m
• Hindi: सुन्नी (hi) m (sunnī), चहार (hi) m (cahār), चारयारी (hi) f (cāryārī)
• Italian: sunnismo (it) m
• Japanese: スンニ派 (sunni-ha), スンニー派 (sunnī-ha), スンナ派 (sunna-ha)
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• Kurdish:
• Marathi: सुन्नी ? (sunnī)
• Persian: تسنن (fa) (tasannon)
• Portuguese: sunismo m
• Russian: сунни́зм (ru) m (sunnízm)
• Spanish: sunismo m
• Turkish: Sünni (tr)
• Ukrainian: суні́зм m (sunízm)

See also

• Shi'a
• Sunnism
• Ahle Hadith

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