imam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).
Inflected forms:
form: imams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imaum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: iman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
pos: noun
examples: 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)
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.
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.
Sheik Mohammad Seyed Tantawi, Egypt’s highest-ranking imam, led the prayers over the coffin, covered with an Egyptian flag.
The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
gloss: A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
gloss: A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
Derived words: imamate
imam bayildi
imamic
imamship
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: imam
lang: Afrikaans
word: imaam
lang: Albanian
word: imam
lang: Amharic
word: ኢማም
roman: ʾimam
lang: Arabic
word: إِمَام
roman: ʔimām
lang: Aramaic
word: ܐܝܡܡ
lang: Armenian
word: իմամ
roman: imam
lang: Azerbaijani
word: imam
lang: Azerbaijani
word: има́м
lang: Bashkir
word: имам
roman: imam
lang: Belarusian
word: іма́м
roman: imám
lang: Bengali
word: ইমাম
roman: imam
lang: Bulgarian
word: има́м
roman: imám
lang: Catalan
word: imam
lang: Chechen
word: имам
roman: imam
lang: Chinese
word: ахун
roman: ahun
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 伊瑪目 /伊玛目
roman: yīmǎmù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 教長 /教长
roman: jiāozhǎng, jiàozhǎng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 阿訇
roman: āhōng
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: imam
lang: Czech
word: imám
lang: Danish
word: imam
lang: Dhivehi
word: އިމާމް
roman: imām̊
lang: Dutch
word: imam
lang: Esperanto
word: imamo
lang: Estonian
word: imaam
lang: Finnish
word: imaami
lang: French
word: imam
lang: Georgian
word: იმამი
roman: imami
lang: German
word: Imam
lang: Greek
word: ιμάμης
roman: imámis
lang: Hausa
word: liman
lang: Hebrew
word: אִימָאם
roman: imám
lang: Hindi
word: इमाम
roman: imām
lang: Hungarian
word: imám
lang: Indonesian
word: imam
lang: Irish
word: iomám
lang: Italian
word: imam
lang: Japanese
word: イマーム
roman: imāmu
lang: Kazakh
word: имам
roman: imam
lang: Khmer
word: អ៊ីម៉ាម
roman: ʼiimaam
lang: Korean
word: 이맘
roman: imam
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mela
lang: Central Kurdish
word: مەلا
roman: mela
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پێشنوێژ
roman: pêşinwêj
lang: Kyrgyz
word: имам
roman: imam
lang: Latvian
word: imāms
lang: Lithuanian
word: imamas
lang: Macedonian
word: и́мам
roman: ímam
lang: Malay
word: imam
lang: Malayalam
word: ഇമാം
roman: imāṁ
lang: Maranao
word: imam
lang: Minangkabau
word: imam
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: imam
lang: Pashto
word: امام
roman: emām
lang: Dari
word: اِمَام
roman: imām
lang: Dari
word: آخُونْد
roman: āxūnd
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اِمام
roman: emâm
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آخونْد
roman: âxund
lang: Polish
word: imam
lang: Portuguese
word: imã
lang: Portuguese
word: imame
lang: Rohingya
word: imam
lang: Romanian
word: imam
lang: Russian
word: има́м
roman: imám
lang: Salar
word: aqunbo
lang: Salar
word: aqun
lang: Samogitian
word: imams
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ѝма̄м
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ìmām
lang: Spanish
word: imán
lang: Swahili
word: imamu
lang: Swedish
word: imam
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠁꠝꠣꠝ
roman: imam
lang: Tajik
word: имом
roman: imom
lang: Tajik
word: охунд
roman: oxund
lang: Tamil
word: இமாம்
roman: imām
lang: Tatar
word: имам
roman: imam
lang: Telugu
word: ఇమామ్
roman: imām
lang: Thai
word: อิหม่าม
roman: ì-màam
lang: Tigrinya
word: ኢማም
roman: ʾimam
lang: Turkish
word: imam
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: امام
roman: imam
lang: Turkmen
word: imam
lang: Ukrainian
word: іма́м
roman: imám
lang: Urdu
word: اِمام
roman: imām
lang: Urdu
word: آخُونْد
roman: āxūnd
lang: Uyghur
word: ئىمام
roman: imam
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاخۇن
roman: axun
lang: Uzbek
word: imom
lang: Uzbek
word: oxund
lang: Welsh
word: imâm
lang: Yiddish
word: אימאַם
roman: imam
lang: Yoruba
word: lèmọ́mù
lang: Yoruba
word: ìmáàmù
lang: Yoruba
word: afaa
lang: Yoruba
word: alufaa