noun
Meaning 1
Alternative form of sunnah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Sunnah
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noun
Meaning 2
(An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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noun
Meaning 3
(Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Sunna, hadith
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: way, path, way of life
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: synnet — custom, system, way of life
- Arabic: سُنَّة (sunna) — custom, system, way of life
- Azerbaijani: sünnət — custom, system, way of life
- Bengali: সুন্নত (śunnot) — custom, system, way of life
- Bengali: সুন্নৎ (śunnot) — custom, system, way of life
- Chechen: суннат (sunnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Chinese Mandarin: 聖行 /圣行 (shèngxíng, shèngxìng) — custom, system, way of life
- Dhivehi: ސުއްނަތް (sunnat̊) — custom, system, way of life
- Finnish: sunna — custom, system, way of life
- Georgian: სუნა (suna) — custom, system, way of life
- Gujarati: સુન્નત (sunnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Hausa: sunnā̀ — custom, system, way of life
- Hindi: सुन्नत (sunnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Italian: sunna — custom, system, way of life
- Japanese: スンナ (sunna) — custom, system, way of life
- Kazakh: сүннет (sünnet) — custom, system, way of life
- Korean: 순나 (sunna) — custom, system, way of life
- Northern Kurdish: sinet — custom, system, way of life
- Kyrgyz: сүннөт (sünnöt) — custom, system, way of life
- Malay: sunnah — custom, system, way of life
- Pashto: سنت (sonát) — custom, system, way of life
- Persian: سنت (sonnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Polish: sunna — custom, system, way of life
- Serbo-Croatian: суна — custom, system, way of life
- Serbo-Croatian: suna — custom, system, way of life
- Tajik: суннат (sunnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Tatar: сөннәт (sönnät) — custom, system, way of life
- Turkish: sünnet — custom, system, way of life
- Urdu: سنت (sunnat) — custom, system, way of life
- Uyghur: سۈننەت (sünnet) — custom, system, way of life
- Uzbek: sunnat — custom, system, way of life
- Bengali: সুন্নত (śunnot) — Muhammad's way of life
- Bengali: সুন্নৎ (śunnot) — Muhammad's way of life
- Czech: sunna — Muhammad's way of life
- Esperanto: sunao — Muhammad's way of life
- German: Sunna — Muhammad's way of life
- Gujarati: સુન્નત (sunnat) — Muhammad's way of life
- Hindi: सुन्नत (sunnat) — Muhammad's way of life
- Japanese: スンナ (sunna) — Muhammad's way of life
- Kazakh: сүннет (sünnet) — Muhammad's way of life
- Polish: sunna — Muhammad's way of life
- Portuguese: suna — Muhammad's way of life
- Russian: су́нна (súnna) — Muhammad's way of life
- Swedish: sunna — Muhammad's way of life