iqama

iqama

English

Alternative forms

• ikamet
• iqamat
• iqamah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِقَامَة‎ (ʾiqāma).

Noun

iqama (plural iqamas)

1. (Islam) The second call to prayer, made immediately before Muslims pray.

Translations

second call to prayer

Albanian: ikameti Arabic: إِقَامَة‎ f (ʾiqāma) Azerbaijani: iqamə Bashkir: ҡамәт (qamät) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: iqama

Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: ഇഖാമ (ikhāma) Persian: اقامه‎ (fa) Russian: ика́мат (ikámat) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kamet (tr)

See also

• adhan, azan