English Explanatory Dictionary

imam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
  2. A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
  3. One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.
name
  1. A surname from Arabic.

Pronunciation

/ˈiːmɑːm/ /ɪˈmɑːm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-imam.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-imam2.wav

Word forms

imam imams imaum iman

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Derived words

imamate imam bayildi imamic imamship

Translations

Afrikaans: imam Afrikaans: imaam Albanian: imam Amharic: ኢማም Arabic: إِمَام Aramaic: ܐܝܡܡ Armenian: իմամ Azerbaijani: imam Azerbaijani: има́м Bashkir: имам Belarusian: іма́м Bengali: ইমাম Bulgarian: има́м Catalan: imam Chechen: имам Chinese: ахун Chinese Mandarin: 伊瑪目 /伊玛目 Chinese Mandarin: 教長 /教长 Chinese Mandarin: 阿訇 Crimean Tatar: imam Czech: imám Danish: imam Dhivehi: އިމާމް Dutch: imam Esperanto: imamo Estonian: imaam Finnish: imaami French: imam Georgian: იმამი German: Imam Greek: ιμάμης Hausa: liman Hebrew: אִימָאם Hindi: इमाम Hungarian: imám Indonesian: imam Irish: iomám Italian: imam Japanese: イマーム Kazakh: имам Khmer: អ៊ីម៉ាម Korean: 이맘 Northern Kurdish: mela Central Kurdish: مەلا Central Kurdish: پێشنوێژ
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