different between ummah vs umma

English

Alternative forms

• umma

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (?umma, “community”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?/

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 Sh?‘a [...].

Translations

See also

• Panislamism

Malay

Alternative forms

• ?????

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?umma, “community”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ummah/

Noun

ummah (Jawi spelling ????)

1. community (usually the Muslim community)

Portuguese

Noun

ummah f (uncountable)

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

English

Noun

umma (plural ummas)

1. Alternative spelling of ummah

Anagrams

• Mamu, Muma, maum

Italian

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?umma, “community”).

Noun

umma f (plural umme)

1. (Islam) ummah

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?umaq, from Proto-Austronesian *?umaq. Compare Indonesian rumah.

Noun

umma

1. house

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “umma”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 96

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

umma m (definite singular ummaen, indefinite plural ummaer, definite plural ummaene)

1. (Islam) ummah

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

umma m (definite singular ummaen, indefinite plural ummaer or ummaar, definite plural ummaene or ummaane)

1. (Islam) ummah

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

Noun

úmmá 1a (plural ábómmá 2a)

1. mother

Inflection

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Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

umma (u class, no plural)

1. the public or populace, the general population

Yogad

Noun

ummá

1. kiss