imam

See also: imám and Imam

English

Alternative forms

imaum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/

Noun

imam (plural imams)

A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

Quotations

1901: 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) — John Payne, Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
2001: 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. — London Review of Books, 10 May 2001
2004: 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. — London Review of Books, 7 Oct 2004, p.3

Translations

Muslim leader

Albanian: imam (sq) m
Amharic: ኢማም (ʾimam)
Arabic: إِمَام‎‎ m (ʾimām)
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:
Mandarin: 伊瑪目 (zh), 伊玛目 (zh) (yīmǎmù), 教長 (zh), 教长 (zh) (iāozhǎng, jiàozhǎng), 阿訇 (zh) (āhōng) (used by Hui Muslims)
Crimean Tatar: imam
Czech: imám m
Danish: imam c
Dutch: imam (nl) m
Esperanto: imamo
Estonian: imaam
Finnish: imaami (fi)
French: imam (fr) m
Georgian: იმამი (imami)
German: Imam m
Greek: ιμάμης (el) m (imámis)
Hausa: liman
Hebrew: אִימָאם‎‎ m (imám)
Hindi: ईमाम m (īmām)
Hungarian: imám (hu)
Indonesian: imam (id)
Irish: iomám m
Italian: imam (it) m
Japanese: イマーム (imāmu)
Kazakh: имам (ïmam)
Korean: 이맘 (ko) (imam)

Kyrgyz: имам (ky) (imam)
Latvian: imāms m
Lithuanian: imamas (lt) m
Macedonian: и́мам m (ímam)
Malay: imam
Malayalam: ഇമാം (ml) (imāṃ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: imam m
Ottoman Turkish: امام‎‎ (imam)
Pashto: امام‎‎ (ps) m (emãm)
Persian: امام‎‎ (fa) (emâm)
Polish: imam (pl) m
Portuguese: imã (pt) m, imame (pt) m
Romanian: imam (ro) m
Russian: има́м (ru) m (imám)
Samogitian: imams m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: имам m

Roman: imam (sh) m
Spanish: imán (es) m
Swahili: imamu (sw)
Swedish: imam (sv) c
Tajik: имом (tg) (imom)
Tamil: இமாம் (ta) (imām)
Tatar: имам (tt) (imam)
Telugu: ఇమామ్ (imām)
Thai: อิหม่าม (th) (ì-màam)
Turkish: imam (tr)
Turkmen: imam
Ukrainian: іма́м m (imám)
Urdu: امام‎‎ m (imām)
Uyghur: ئىمام‎‎ (imam)
Uzbek: imom (uz)
Yiddish: אימאַם‎‎ m (imam)

Anagrams

I'mma, Imma, Mami, imma, maim

Albanian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/

Noun

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

(Islam) imam

Declension

declension of imam

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)		definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	imam	imamë	imami	imamët
accusative (kallëzore)	imam	imamë	imamin	imamët
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	imami	imamëve	imamit	imamëve
dative (dhanore)	imami	imamëve	imamit	imamëve
ablative (rrjedhore)	imami	imamësh	imamit	imamëve

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic	имам
Roman	imam
Perso-Arabic	امام, ایمام‎

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

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	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	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	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	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	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	imamlarının

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

imam m (plural imams)

(Islam) imam

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “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 (ʾimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)

(Islam) imam

French

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.mam/

Noun

imam m, f (plural imams)

(Islam) imam

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

Noun

imam m (invariable)

(Islam) imam

Synonyms

iman
imano

Anagrams

Imma
mima

Latin

Adjective

īmam

accusative feminine singular of īmus

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “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

imamita
imamizm

Romanian

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/

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

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

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /iˈmam/, [iˈmãm]
IPA^(key): /iˈman/, [iˈmãn]

Noun

imam m (plural imames)

(Islam) imam

Swedish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader”).

Noun

imam c

(Islam) imam

Declension

Declension of imam
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	imam	imamen	imamer	imamerna
Genitive	imams	imamens	imamers	imamernas

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

imam (definite accusative imamı, plural imamlar)

(Islam) imam

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

imam

Definite accusative

imamı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

imam

imamlar

Definite accusative

imamı

imamları

Dative

imama

imamlara

Locative

imamda

imamlarda

Ablative

imamdan

imamlardan

Genitive

imamın

imamların

Possessive forms
	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

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 (ʾimām).

Noun

imam m

(Islam) imam
(literary) leader

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imam

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Quotations

Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Italian

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

Polish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Related terms

See also

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Swedish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Zazaki

Etymology

Noun