ummah

ummah

English

Alternative forms

• umma

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُمَّة‎ (ʾumma, “community”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊmə/

Noun

ummah (plural ummahs)

1. (Islam) The worldwide Muslim community.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 258:

     That concept of a united ummah has survived all subsequent divisions in Islam, including the great and so far permanent rupture between Sunni and Shī‘a [...].

Translations

the worldwide Muslim community

Albanian: ummë f Arabic: أُمَّة‎ (ar) f (ʾumma) Azerbaijani: ümmət Bashkir: өммәт (ömmät) Bengali: উম্মত (bn) (ummôtô) Chinese: Mandarin: 烏瑪／乌玛 (wūmǎ)，稳麦 (wěnmǎi)，文麦提 (wénmàití) Finnish: umma (fi) French: oumma (fr) f, umma (fr) f German: Umma f Hindi: उम्मा (ummā), उम्मत (hi) f (ummat) Italian: umma (it) f Japanese: ウンマ (unma) Kazakh: умма (umma) Korean: 움마 (umma) Kumyk: уьммет (ümmet) Kyrgyz: умма (umma) Malay: Jawi: اومة‎ (ms) Rumi: ummah (ms), umat Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: umma (no) m Norwegian Nynorsk: umma m Persian: امت‎ (fa) (ommat) Polish: umma f Portuguese: ummah f Rohingya: please add this translation if you can Russian: у́мма (ru) f (úmma) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: uma (sh) f, umma f, umet (sh) f, ummet m Spanish: umma f Swedish: umma c Tajik: уммат (ummat) Tausug: ummat Turkish: ümmet (tr) Urdu: امت‎ f (ummat) Uyghur: ئۈممەت‎ (ümmet) Uzbek: umma Yakan: ummat

See also

• Panislamism

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Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أُمَّة‎ (ʾumma, “community”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ummah/

Noun

ummah (Jawi spelling اومة‎, plural ummah-ummah, informal 1st possessive ummahku, 2nd possessive ummahmu, 3rd possessive ummahnya)

1. community (usually the Muslim community)

   Synonym: umat

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Portuguese

Noun

ummah f (uncountable)

1. (Islam) ummah (the worldwide Muslim community)