imam

See also: Imam, imám, and imâm

English

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imam

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

imaum, iman (both archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɑːm

Noun

imam (plural imams)

(Islam) 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)
- 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.
- 2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The 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 instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
(usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
Hypernym: cleric
1. (Twelver Shi'ism) One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.

Derived terms

Translations

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 (fa) (imām), آخُونْد (fa) (āxūnd)

Iranian Persian: اِمام (fa) (emâm), آخونْد (fa) (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

Anagrams

I'mma, Imma, Mami, imma, maim, mami

Albanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/

Noun

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

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	imam	imami	imamë	imamët
accusative	imam	imamin	imamë	imamët
dative	imami	imamit	imamëve	imamëve
ablative	imami	imamit	imamësh	imamëve

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		имам
Abjad	classical sp	امام
Abjad	new sp	ایمام

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam
	singular	plural
nominative	imam	imamlar
definite accusative	imamı	imamları
dative	imama	imamlara
locative	imamda	imamlarda
ablative	imamdan	imamlardan
definite genitive	imamın	imamların

Possessive forms of imam
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamım	imamlarım
sənin (“your”)	imamın	imamların
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamı	imamları
bizim (“our”)	imamımız	imamlarımız
sizin (“your”)	imamınız	imamlarınız
onların (“their”)	imamı or imamları	imamları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamımı	imamlarımı
sənin (“your”)	imamını	imamlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamını	imamlarını
bizim (“our”)	imamımızı	imamlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	imamınızı	imamlarınızı
onların (“their”)	imamını or imamlarını	imamlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamıma	imamlarıma
sənin (“your”)	imamına	imamlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamına	imamlarına
bizim (“our”)	imamımıza	imamlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	imamınıza	imamlarınıza
onların (“their”)	imamına or imamlarına	imamlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamımda	imamlarımda
sənin (“your”)	imamında	imamlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamında	imamlarında
bizim (“our”)	imamımızda	imamlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	imamınızda	imamlarınızda
onların (“their”)	imamında or imamlarında	imamlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamımdan	imamlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	imamından	imamlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamından	imamlarından
bizim (“our”)	imamımızdan	imamlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	imamınızdan	imamlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	imamından or imamlarından	imamlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	imamımın	imamlarımın
sənin (“your”)	imamının	imamlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	imamının	imamlarının
bizim (“our”)	imamımızın	imamlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	imamınızın	imamlarınızın
onların (“their”)	imamının or imamlarının	imamlarının

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [iˈmam]

Noun

imam m (plural imams)

(Islam) imam

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Noun

imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	imam	imamen	imamer	imamerne
genitive	imams	imamens	imamers	imamernes

References

“imam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)

(Islam) imam

French

Alternative forms

imâm

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.mam/
Audio: (file)

Noun

imam m or f by sense (plural imams)

imam

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

imam

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Malay imam, from Arabic إمام (ʔimām, “leader, imam”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.mam/
Hyphenation: i‧mam

Noun

imam

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/
Rhymes: -am
Hyphenation: i‧màm

Noun

imam m (invariable)

(Islam) imam
Synonyms: iman, imano

Anagrams

Imma, mima

Latin

Adjective

īmam

accusative feminine singular of īmus

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

imam

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈi.mam/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -imam
Syllabification: i‧mam

Etymology 1

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Noun

imam m pers

(Islam) imam (“a Shi'ite Muslim leader”)

Declension

Declension of imam

	singular	plural
nominative	imam	imamowie
genitive	imama	imamów
dative	imamowi	imamom
accusative	imama	imamów
instrumental	imamem	imamami
locative	imamie	imamach
vocative	imamie	imamowie

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

imam

first-person singular present of imać

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امام (“imam”), from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.ˈmam/
Rhymes: -am
Hyphenation: i‧mam

Noun

imam m (plural imami)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) imam	imamul	(niște) imami	imamii
genitive/dative	(unui) imam	imamului	(unor) imami	imamilor
vocative	imamule		imamilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ìmām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam

	singular	plural
nominative	ìmām	imami
genitive	imáma	imama
dative	imamu	imamima
accusative	imama	imame
vocative	imame	imami
locative	imamu	imamima
instrumental	imamom	imamima

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

imam (Cyrillic spelling имам)

first-person singular present of imati (I have)

Slovene

Verb

imam

first-person singular present of imeti

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/ [iˈmãm]
- Rhymes: -am
- Syllabification: i‧mam
IPA^(key): /iˈman/ [iˈmãn]
- Rhymes: -an

Noun

imam m (plural imames)

(Islam) imam

Swahili

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya): (file)

Noun

imam (n class, plural imam)

Alternative form of imamu

Swedish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”).

Noun

imam c

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	imam	imams
singular	definite	imamen	imamens
plural	indefinite	imamer	imamers
plural	definite	imamerna	imamernas

References

Anagrams

imma, mima

Tagalog

Alternative forms

iman

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”), possibly through English or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ʔiˈmam/ [ʔɪˈmam] (prescriptive from Arabic)
  - Rhymes: -am
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔimam/ [ˈʔiː.mɐm]
  - Rhymes: -imam
Syllabification: i‧mam

Noun

imám or imam (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜋ᜔) (Islam, theology)

imam

References

“imam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

mami

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

imam

Definite accusative

imamı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

imam

Definite accusative

Dative

Locative

Ablative

Genitive

Possessive forms
Nominative
	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
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	imamımı	imamlarımı
2nd singular	imamını	imamlarını
3rd singular	imamını	imamlarını
1st plural	imamımızı	imamlarımızı
2nd plural	imamınızı	imamlarınızı
3rd plural	imamlarını	imamlarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	imamıma	imamlarıma
2nd singular	imamına	imamlarına
3rd singular	imamına	imamlarına
1st plural	imamımıza	imamlarımıza
2nd plural	imamınıza	imamlarınıza
3rd plural	imamlarına	imamlarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	imamımda	imamlarımda
2nd singular	imamında	imamlarında
3rd singular	imamında	imamlarında
1st plural	imamımızda	imamlarımızda
2nd plural	imamınızda	imamlarınızda
3rd plural	imamlarında	imamlarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	imamımdan	imamlarımdan
2nd singular	imamından	imamlarından
3rd singular	imamından	imamlarından
1st plural	imamımızdan	imamlarımızdan
2nd plural	imamınızdan	imamlarınızdan
3rd plural	imamlarından	imamlarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	imamımın	imamlarımın
2nd singular	imamının	imamlarının
3rd singular	imamının	imamlarının
1st plural	imamımızın	imamlarımızın
2nd plural	imamınızın	imamlarınızın
3rd plural	imamlarının	imamlarının

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

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [iˈmɑm]
Hyphenation: i‧mam

Noun

imam

(Islam) imam
(literary) leader

imam

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

Slovene

Verb

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading