Borrowed fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam (plural imams
( Islam ) salat prayers in amosque .1901 Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp :Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was anImam . (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)
2001 May 10,London Review of Books :But then there's a Christian cleric and animam 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 Wahhabiimams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.
2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, inThe Guardian [1] 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 instructimams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
( usually capitalized ) Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophetMuhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.Hypernym: cleric ( Twelver Shi'ism ) One of theTwelve imams , descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuriesCE Muslim leader
Afrikaans:imam imaam Albanian:imam (sq) m Amharic:ኢማም ( ʾimam ) Arabic:إِمَام m ( ʔimām ) Aramaic:Classical Syriac:ܐܝܡܡ m Armenian:իմամ (hy) ( imam ) Azerbaijani:imam Cyrillic:има́м Bashkir:имам ( imam ) Belarusian:іма́м m ( imám ) Bengali:ইমাম (bn) ( imam ) Bulgarian:има́м (bg) m ( imám ) Catalan:imam m Chechen:имам ( imam ) Chinese:Dungan:ахун ( ahun ) Mandarin:伊瑪目 / 伊玛目 (zh) ( yīmǎmù ) ,教長 / 教长 (zh) ( jiāozhǎng, jiàozhǎng ) ,阿訇 (zh) ( āhōng ) ( used by Hui Muslims ) Crimean Tatar:imam Czech:imám (cs) m Danish:imam c Dhivehi:please add this translation if you can Dutch:imam (nl) m Esperanto:imamo Estonian:imaam Finnish:imaami (fi) French:imam (fr) m Georgian:იმამი ( imami ) German:Imam (de) m Greek:ιμάμης (el) m ( imámis ) Hausa:liman Hebrew:אִימָאם m ( imám ) Hindi:ईमाम m ( īmām ) Hungarian:imám (hu) Indonesian:imam (id) Iranun:please add this translation if you can Irish:iomám m Italian:imam (it) m Japanese:イマーム ( imāmu ) Kazakh:имам ( imam ) Khmer:អ៊ីម៉ាម ( ʼiimaam ) Korean:이맘 (ko) ( imam ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:îmam (ku) Kyrgyz:имам (ky) ( imam ) Latvian:imāms m Lithuanian:imamas (lt) m Macedonian:и́мам m ( ímam ) Maguindanao:please add this translation if you can Malay:imam (ms) Malayalam:ഇമാം (ml) ( imāṁ ) Maranao:imam Minangkabau:imam (min) Norwegian:Bokmål:imam m Ottoman Turkish:امام ( imam ) Pashto:امام (ps) m ( emām ) Persian:Dari:اِمَام ( imām ) ,آخُونْد ( āxūnd ) Iranian Persian:اِمام ( emâm ) ,آخونْد ( âxund ) Polish:imam (pl) m Portuguese:imã (pt) m imame (pt) m Rohingya:imam Romanian:imam (ro) m Russian:има́м (ru) m ( imám ) Salar:aqunbo aqun Samogitian:imams m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:ѝма̄м m Roman:ìmām (sh) m Spanish:imán (es) m Swahili:imamu (sw) Swedish:imam (sv) c Sylheti:ꠁꠝꠣꠝ ( imam ) Tajik:имом (tg) ( imom ) ,охунд ( oxund ) Tamil:இமாம் (ta) ( imām ) Tatar:имам (tt) ( imam ) Telugu:ఇమామ్ ( imām ) Thai:อิหม่าม (th) ( ì-màam ) Tigrinya:ኢማም ( ʾimam ) Turkish:imam (tr) Turkmen:imam Ukrainian:іма́м m ( imám ) Urdu:اِمام (ur) m ( imām ) ,آخُونْد (ur) m ( āxūnd ) Uyghur:ئىمام ( imam ) ,ئاخۇن ( axun ) Uzbek:imom (uz) ,oxund (uz) Welsh:imâm m Yiddish:אימאַם m ( imam ) Yoruba:lèmọ́mù ìmáàmù
FromOttoman Turkish امام ( imam ) , fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
imam m plural imamë definite imami definite plural imamët
( Islam ) imam Borrowed fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
imam (definite accusative imamı plural imamlar
( Islam ) imam FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
imam m plural imams
( Islam ) imam FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam c singular definite imamen plural indefinite imamer
( Islam ) imam FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam m plural imams diminutive imampje n
( Islam ) imam Borrowed fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
imam m or f by sense plural imams
imam Inherited fromMalay امام ( imam ) , fromArabic إمام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ,imam ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /i.mam/ Hyphenation:i‧mam imam (plural imam -imam
( Islam ) imam ( Catholicism ) priest Synonyms: padri pastor rama ( rare ) leader Synonyms: kepala pemimpin penghulu FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam m invariable
( Islam ) imam Synonyms: iman imano īmam
accusative feminine singular ofīmus FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam m pers
( Islam ) imam ( “ a Shi'ite Muslim leader ” ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
imam
first-person singular present ofimać imam inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANimam in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromOttoman Turkish امام ( “ imam ” ) , fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /i.ˈmam/ Rhymes:-am Hyphenation:i‧mam imam m plural imami
( Islam ) imam Borrowed fromOttoman Turkish امام ( imam ) , fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
ìmām m Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м
( Islam ) imam See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
imam (Cyrillic spelling имам
first-person singular present ofimati ( I have ) imam
first-person singular present ofimeti FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /iˈmam/ [iˈmãm] Rhymes:-am Syllabification:i‧mam IPA (key ) : /iˈman/ [iˈmãn] imam m plural imames
( Islam ) imam imam classIX (plural imam classX )
Alternative form ofimamu FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) .
imam c
( Islam ) imam Borrowed fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ,“ leader ” ) , possibly throughEnglish orPhilippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.
imám or imam (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜋ᜔ ( Islam , theology )
imam “imam ”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila,2018 FromOttoman Turkish امام ( imam ) , fromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
imam (definite accusative imamı plural imamlar
( Islam ) imam FromArabic إِمَام ( ʔimām ) .
IPA (key ) : [iˈmɑm] Hyphenation:i‧mam imam
( Islam ) imam ( literary ) leader 
