إمامة

Arabic

Root
ء م م (ʔ m m)
8 terms

Etymology

From إِمَام (ʔimām) + ـَة (-a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔi.maː.ma/

Noun

إِمَامَة • (ʔimāma) f

1. guidance
2. leadership
3. (Islam) imamate

Declension

Declension of noun إِمَامَة (ʔimāma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	إِمَامَة ʔimāma	الْإِمَامَة al-ʔimāma	إِمَامَة ʔimāmat
Nominative	إِمَامَةٌ ʔimāmatun	الْإِمَامَةُ al-ʔimāmatu	إِمَامَةُ ʔimāmatu
Accusative	إِمَامَةً ʔimāmatan	الْإِمَامَةَ al-ʔimāmata	إِمَامَةَ ʔimāmata
Genitive	إِمَامَةٍ ʔimāmatin	الْإِمَامَةِ al-ʔimāmati	إِمَامَةِ ʔimāmati

Descendants

• → Persian: امامت (emâmat)
  • Tajik: имомат (imomat)
  • → Urdu: امامت (imāmat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: امامت (imâmet)
  • → Turkish: imamet
• → Malay: imamat
• → Indonesian: imamah, imamat
• → Uyghur: ئىمامەت (imamet)
• → Uzbek: imomat

References

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “إمامة”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “إمامة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “إمامة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “إمامة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz