imam

• imaum, iman (both archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm

imam (plural imams)

1. 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:

     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.

2. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
   1. (Twelver Shi'ism) One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries CE who lived exemplary lives.

• I'mma, Imma, Mami, imma, maim, mami

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

• IPA^(key): /iˈmam/

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

1. (Islam) imam

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

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imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

1. (Islam) imam

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /iˈmam/

imam m (plural imams)

1. (Islam) imam

• “imam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)

1. (Islam) imam

• “imam” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

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imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)

1. (Islam) imam

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

• IPA^(key): /i.mam/

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imam m or f by sense (plural imams)

1. (Islam) imam

• “imam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

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

imam

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

• “imam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

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

imam m (invariable)

1. (Islam) imam

   Synonyms: iman, imano

• Imma, mima

īmam

1. accusative feminine singular of īmus

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mam/

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• Rhymes: -imam
• Syllabification: i‧mam

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

imam m pers

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

• mufti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

imam

1. first-person singular present of imać

• imam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• imam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

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

imam m (plural imami)

1. (Islam) imam

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

ìmām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝма̄м)

1. (Islam) imam

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

imam (Cyrillic spelling имам)

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

imam

1. first-person singular present of imeti

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

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

imam m (plural imames)

1. (Islam) imam

• “imam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

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imam (n class, plural imam)

1. imam (Muslim leader)

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

imam c

1. (Islam) imam

• imma, mima

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

• Hyphenation: i‧mam
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔimam/, [ˈʔi.mɐm]

imam (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜋ᜔)

1. (Islam, theology) imam

   Synonym: iman

• binyag

• “imam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

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

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

1. (Islam) imam

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

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

imam m

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