imam

See also: imám and Imam

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/

Noun

imam (plural imams)

  1. A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  2. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

Quotations

  • 1901: 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) John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
  • 2001: 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. London Review of Books, 10 May 2001
  • 2004: 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. London Review of Books, 7 Oct 2004, p.3

Translations

Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmam/

Noun

imam m (indefinite plural imamë, definite singular imami, definite plural imamët)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension


Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic имам
Roman imam
Perso-Arabic امام, ایمام

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension


Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

Noun

imam m (plural imams)

  1. (Islam) imam

Further reading


Danish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Noun

imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension

References


Dutch

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)

  1. (Islam) imam

French

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.mam/

Noun

imam m or f (plural imams)

  1. (Islam) imam

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay imam, from Arabic إمام (ʾimām, leader, imam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.mam/
  • Hyphenation: i‧mam

Noun

imam

  1. leader
  2. (Islam) imam
  3. (Catholicism) priest

Derived terms

  • keimaman
  • mengimani

Further reading


Italian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Noun

imam m (invariable)

  1. (Islam) imam

Synonyms

Anagrams


Latin

Adjective

īmam

  1. accusative feminine singular of īmus

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Noun

imam m pers

  1. (Islam) imam (a Shi'ite Muslim leader)

Declension

  • imamita
  • imamizm

See also

Further reading

  • imam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmam/

Noun

imam m (plural imami)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

ìmām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Verb

imam (Cyrillic spelling имам)

  1. first-person singular present of imati (I have)

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmam/, [iˈmãm]
  • IPA(key): /iˈman/, [iˈmãn]

Noun

imam m (plural imames)

  1. (Islam) imam

Swedish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām, leader).

Noun

imam c

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative imam imamen imamer imamerna
Genitive imams imamens imamers imamernas

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Inflection
Nominative imam
Definite accusative imamı
Singular Plural
Nominative imam imamlar
Definite accusative imamı imamları
Dative imama imamlara
Locative imamda imamlarda
Ablative imamdan imamlardan
Genitive imamın imamların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular imamım imamlarım
2nd singular imamın imamların
3rd singular imamı imamları
1st plural imamımız imamlarımız
2nd plural imamınız imamlarınız
3rd plural imamları imamları
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular imamım imamlarım
2nd singular imamsın imamlarsın
3rd singular imam
imamdır
imamlar
imamlardır
1st plural imamız imamlarız
2nd plural imamsınız imamlarsınız
3rd plural imamlar imamlardır

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [iˈmɑm]
  • Hyphenation: i‧mam

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

imam m

  1. (Islam) imam
  2. (literary) leader
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