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имам

имам

Azeri

Other scripts
Cyrillic имам
Roman imam
Perso-Arabic امام, ایمام

Noun

имам (definite accusative имамы, plural имамлар)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension


Bulgarian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *jьměti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiməm/

Verb

имам (ímam) impf, pf

  1. to have, possess, own
  2. to suffer from (an illness), have (an illness)
  3. to regard, consider, hold, look upon
    Имам го за верен човек.Imam go za veren čovek. ― I hold him to be loyal; I regard him as trustworthy.
Inflection
Synonyms
  • (possess): притежавам (pritežavam)
  • (suffer): страдам (stradam)
  • (regard): смятам (smjatam), считам (sčitam)
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam) (Turkish imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Alternative forms

  • имамин (imamin)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmam/

Noun

има́м (imám) m

  1. (Islam) imaum, imam
Inflection

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam) (Turkish imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

имам (imam) m

  1. (Islam) imam

Russian

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɪˈmam]

Noun

има́м (imám) m anim (genitive има́ма, nominative plural има́мы, genitive plural има́мов)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension

Related terms

  • имамат (imamat)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish امام (imam), from Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām).

Noun

ѝма̄м m (Latin spelling ìmām)

  1. (Islam) imam

Declension