imam
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imam (plural imams)
- (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
- 2001 May 10, London Review of Books:
- But then there's a Christian cleric and an imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department.
- 2004 October 7, London Review of Books, page 3:
- In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.
- One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
- 1901, John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp:
- Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an Imam. (footnote: The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached)
Derived terms
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Albanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
imam m (plural imamë, definite imami, definite plural imamët)
Declension
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | имам | |
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Abjad | امام, ایمام |
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun
imam (definite accusative imamnı, plural imamlar)
Declension
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
imam m (plural imams)
Further reading
- “imam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)
Declension
References
- “imam” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
imam m or f (plural imams)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay imam, from Arabic إمام (ʔimām, “leader, imam”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imam
- leader
- (Islam) imam
- (Catholicism) priest
Derived terms
Further reading
- “imam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
imam m (uncountable)
Synonyms
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) īmam
Polish
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
imam m pers
Declension
Related terms
See also
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imam m (plural imami)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun
ìmām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м)
Declension
Verb
imam (Cyrillic spelling имам)
- first-person singular present of imati (I have)
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imam m (plural imames)
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
imam (n class, plural imam)
- imam (Muslim leader)
Swedish
Etymology
From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Noun
imam c
Declension
Declension of imam | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | imam | imamen | imamer | imamerna |
Genitive | imams | imamens | imamers | imamernas |
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).
Noun
imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)
Declension
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | imam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | imam | imamlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | imamı | imamları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | imama | imamlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | imamda | imamlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | imamdan | imamlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | imamın | imamların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pronunciation
Etymology
Noun
imam
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- Rhymes:English/ɑːm
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- az:Islam
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- ca:Islam
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- da:Islam
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- nl:Islam
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- fr:Islam
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- id:Islam
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- pl:Islam
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- ro:Islam
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- sh:Islam
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- es:Islam
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- sw:Islam
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- sv:Islam
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- tr:Islam
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