oelama
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عُلَمَاء (ʿulamāʾ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /u.laː.maː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: oe‧la‧ma
Noun
oelama (plural)
- (Islam) ulema
- (plural only) Islamic religious specialists
- (collective) the community of Islamic experts
Usage notes
- A nonstandard (double) plural oelama's is sometimes found in the meaning “religious experts”.