ummah

English

Alternative forms

• umma

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, “community”). Cognate to Hebrew אומה / אֻמָּה (ʾummā, “nation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊmə/

Noun

ummah (plural ummahs)

1. (Islam) The worldwide Muslim community.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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 Shī‘a [...].

Translations

the worldwide Muslim community

• Albanian: ummë f
• Arabic: أُمَّة (ar) f (ʔumma)
• Azerbaijani: ümmət
• Bashkir: өммәт (ömmət)
• Bengali: উম্মত (bn) (ummot)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏瑪／乌玛 (wūmǎ)，稳麦 (wěnmǎi)，文麦提 (wénmàití)

• Finnish: umma (fi)
• French: oumma (fr) f, umma (fr) f
• German: Umma f
• Hindi: उम्मा (ummā), उम्मत (hi) f (ummat)
• Italian: umma (it) f
• Japanese: ウンマ (unma)
• Kazakh: умма (umma)
• Korean: 움마 (umma)
• Kumyk: уьммет (ümmet)
• Kyrgyz: умма (umma)
• Malay:

  Jawi: اومة (ms)

  Rumi: ummah (ms), umat

• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: umma (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: umma m

• Persian:

  Dari: امت (fa) (ummat)

  Iranian Persian: امت (fa) (ommat)

• Polish: umma f
• Portuguese: ummah f
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: у́мма (ru) f (úmma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: uma (sh) f, umma f, umet (sh) f, ummet m

• Spanish: umma f
• Swedish: umma c
• Tagalog: ummah
• Tajik: уммат (ummat)
• Tausug: ummat
• Thai: อุมมะฮ์, อุมมะฮฺ, อุมมะห์
• Turkish: ümmet (tr)
• Urdu: امت f (ummat)
• Uyghur: ئۈممەت (ümmet)
• Uzbek: umma
• Yakan: ummat

See also

• Panislamism

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma, “community”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ummah/

Noun

ummah (Jawi spelling اومة, plural ummah-ummah, informal 1st possessive ummahku, 2nd possessive ummahmu, 3rd possessive ummahnya)

1. community (usually the Muslim community)

   Synonym: umat

Portuguese

Noun

ummah f (uncountable)

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

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• umma

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic أُمَّة (ʔumma), possibly via English ummah.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔuma/ [ˈʔuː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: u‧mmah

Noun

ummah (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜋ) (Islam)

1. ummah (worldwide Muslim community)

See also

• kapatiran
• komunidad
• pamayanan