different between imam vs faith

English

Alternative forms

• imaum

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?m??m/, /??m??m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

imam (plural imams)

1. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.
   1. (Twelver Shi'ism) One of the Twelve imams, descendants of Muhammad from the seventh to ninth centuries C.E. who lived exemplary lives.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• I'mma, Imma, Mami, imma, maim, mami

Albanian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?mam/

Noun

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

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Noun

imam (definite accusative imam?, plural imamlar)

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?mam/

Noun

imam m (plural imams)

1. (Islam) imam

Further reading

• “imam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Noun

imam c (singular definite imamen, plural indefinite imamer)

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

References

• “imam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Pronunciation

Noun

imam m (plural imams, diminutive imampje n)

1. (Islam) imam

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mam/

Noun

imam m or f (plural imams)

1. (Islam) imam

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay imam, from Arabic ????? (?im?m, “leader, imam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mam/
• Hyphenation: i?mam

Noun

imam

1. leader
2. (Islam) imam
3. (Catholicism) priest

Derived terms

Further reading

• “imam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Noun

imam m (invariable)

1. (Islam) imam

   Synonyms: iman, imano

Anagrams

• Imma
• mima

Latin

Adjective

?mam

1. accusative feminine singular of ?mus

Polish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Noun

imam m pers

1. (Islam) imam (“a Shi'ite Muslim leader”)

Declension

Related terms

• imamita
• imamizm

See also

• mufti

Further reading

• imam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?mam/

Noun

imam m (plural imami)

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (imam), from Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Noun

ìm?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

imam (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. first-person singular present of imati (I have)

Slovene

Verb

imam

1. first-person singular present of imeti

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?mam/, [i?mãm]

• IPA^(key): /i?man/, [i?mãn]

Noun

imam m (plural imames)

1. (Islam) imam

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Pronunciation

Noun

imam (n class, plural imam)

1. imam (Muslim leader)

Swedish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m, “leader”).

Noun

imam c

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Anagrams

• imma, mima

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (imam), from Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Noun

imam (definite accusative imam?, plural imamlar)

1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i?m?m]
• Hyphenation: i?mam

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?im?m).

Noun

imam m

1. (Islam) imam
2. (literary) leader

English

Alternative forms

• feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faith, fayth, feith, feyth (also fay, fey, fei ("faith"); > English fay (“faith”)), borrowed from Old French fay, fey, fei, feit, feid (“faith”), from Latin fid?s (faith, belief, trust; whence also English fidelity), from f?d? (“trust, confide in”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- ("to command, persuade, trust"; whence also English bide).Displaced native Old English geleafa (“faith, religion”), which was a cognate of Dutch geloof (“permission”), which is survived in English leave (“permission”).

Old French had [?] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [?]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g. truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterisation of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix, thus making the word equivalent to fay +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

faith (countable and uncountable, plural faiths)

1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

3. A religious or spiritual belief system.

   • For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.
     That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.
4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

5. (obsolete) Credibility or truth.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:faith.

Synonyms

• (knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust, conviction
• (system of religious belief): religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• faith at OneLook Dictionary Search
• faith in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• faith in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• faith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hatif