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Definition: Imam |
ImamNoun1. (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Imam" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a leader". |
Date "imam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: ImamSynonym: imaum (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
According to the Twelve-Imam Shiite dogma, imam refers only to one of twelve early leaders of Islam - Ali, Hasan, Husayn, and nine of Husayn's descendants.
The Ismailis trace a different line of Imams, branching at one of Husayn's descendants from the 12-Imam line.
For a slightly more detailed description of the Shiite belief (and for the other names and titles of the twelve Imáms, see, for example, http://www.bahai-library.org/books/dawnbreakers/preface/prefislam.html .External Links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Imam."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imam |
| English words defined with "imam": Mahdi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Imam" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (imam), Croatian (have), French (imam), German (imam), Indonesian (head, leader, priest), Portuguese (imbalance), Serbo-Croatian (imam, i've), Slovene (have), Swedish (imaum), Turkish (imam). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Raag Imam Kalyan (1972) Imam dvije mame i dva tate (1968) | |
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Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | When Imam Bassama Sylla attempted to intervene, the police stripped and detained him. (references) |
Gambia | However, the Government filed an appeal in the High Court for the imam and three others to be retried. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | On April 9, a Tashkent court convicted former Imam Abdulvakhid Yuldashev, a former pupil of Imam Nazarov along with 12 other defendants. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | His dynasty, the Al Sa'id, was founded about 250 years ago by Imam Ahmed bin Sa'id. (references) |
Oman | The sultan then terminated the Treaty of Seeb and eliminated the office of the imam. (references) | |
Yemen | Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam Yahya strengthened his control over north Yemen. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | The imam had not confessed and there were no witnesses. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Imam Khudjaev was accused of involvement in the February 1999 Tashkent bombings. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Uzbek Imam Khadji Khudjaev, who was arrested by Russian police in August 2000 and extradited to Uzbekistan in November 2000, remained in jail at year's end. (references) | |
Minorities | Turkey | In January a local imam in Sivas criticized proselytizing by members of the Baha'i faith. (references) |
Ghana | On May 25, members of the Tijanniya and Al-Sunna Muslim sects clashed in Madina, Greater Accra, over the choice of an assistant Imam. (references) | |
Turkey | In his public remarks, he read a Koranic verse alluding to those "whose killing is necessary." The Baha'i have pressed charges against the imam. (references) | |
Women | Algeria | The violence was incited by an imam who accused the women of prostitution and questioned why they were working while men in the town were unemployed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Imam" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.17% of the time. "Imam" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 55.17% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.83% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "imam" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Imam | Last name | 100 | 83,465 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "imam": duties of imam. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imam | 97 |
ask imam | 66 |
imam ali | 53 |
imam iraqs mosque | 33 |
imam mahdi | 28 |
imam khomeini | 26 |
imam mosque | 25 |
imam iraq mosque | 23 |
imam hussein | 12 |
imam sadia | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imam, hoxh. (various references) | |
Arabic | إمام رجل عالم ديني بالإسلام, أحد الأ ئمة الإ ثنى عشر, رجل دين مسلم. (various references) | |
French | imam. (various references) | |
German | imam. (various references) | |
Hungarian | imám. (various references) | |
Italian | imano. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imamay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inseto perfeito. (various references) | |
Russian | имам. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imam (i've). (various references) | |
Spanish | imán (hell raiser, helraser, magnet). (various references) | |
Thai | โต๊ะอิหม่าม. (various references) | |
Turkish | imam. (various references) | |
Ukranian | імам. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imam": imamate, imamates, imams. (additional references) | |
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"Imam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amam, amraam, Amram, anam, bimah, emim, emmm, Fmma, iama, ibam, igman, Iham, Ihan, Ija, Ijma, ilam, ima, imac, imad, imag, imah, imami, Imani, imao, imap, imar, imas, imax, imay, Imaz, imba, Imda, imeand, imemo, imen, imet, imex, imfamy, imi, Imin, imm, Immo, Imsak, imu, inah, inak, iname, inan, inem, inim, inmac, Ipma, iqa, iram, isam, Isapm, Ismat, itan, Itmar, Ivamy, kimome, mam, miame, Mimram, omim, ommmmm, Uiagm, ymm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: maim. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-m" | |
-1 letter: aim, ami, mim. | |
-2 letters: ai, am, ma, mi, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-m" | |
+1 letter: imams, imaum, maims, mamie, maxim, miasm. | |
+2 letters: ammine, ammino, gimmal, imaums, imbalm, immane, maihem, maimed, maimer, mamies, mammie, maxima, maxims, miasma, miasms, mimbar, mimosa, minima, misaim, tammie. | |
+3 letters: ammines, ammonia, ammonic, animism, atomism, bamming, cadmium, cambism, cambium, damming, digamma, dilemma, gammier, gamming, gimmals, hammier, hammily, hamming, imagism, imamate, imbalms, immoral, jammier, jammies, jamming, jimjams, lamming, maihems, mailman, mailmen, maimers, maiming, malmier, mammati, mammies, manumit, marimba, marmite, maximal, maximin, maximum, melisma, mermaid, miasmal, miasmas, miasmic, milkman, milldam, mimbars, mimical, mimosas, minicam, minimal, minimax, misaims, mismade, mismake, mismark, mismate, misname, mohalim, rammier, ramming, rammish, semimat, tammies. | |
+4 letters: aglimmer, alarmism, aluminum, ammoniac, ammonias, ammonify, ammonite, ammonium, ammonoid, animisms, atomisms, cadmiums, cambisms, cambiums, camomile, chammied, chammies, cimbalom, clammier, clammily, clamming, cramming, cymatium, digammas, dilemmas, dimmable, dramming, dynamism, familism, flamming, flimflam, gammadia, gammiest, hammiest, humanism, imagisms, imamates, imbalmed, imbalmer, immanent, immature, immolate, immortal, jammiest, machismo, magmatic, mahimahi, mahzorim, mailbomb, mainmast, makimono, malemiut, malmiest, mamaliga, mamboing, mammilla, mammitis, manumits, marasmic, marimbas, maritime, marmites, masurium, maximals, maximins, maximise, maximite, maximize, maximums, mealtime, meantime, melamdim, melamine, melanism, melismas, memorial, memsahib, mermaids, miasmata, milkmaid, milldams, minicamp, minicams, minimals, minyanim, misaimed, misclaim, misframe, mishmash, mismakes, mismarks, mismatch, mismated, mismates, misnamed, misnames, misogamy, monadism, monomial, moralism, mortmain, moshavim, nomadism, pemmican, psammite, racemism, ramiform, rammiest, samarium, scamming, semicoma, semimatt, shammied, shammies, shamming, shamosim, slamming, smarmier, smarmily, spamming, summital, tagmemic, timpanum, tramming, whammies, whamming. | |
+5 letters: academism, alarmisms, aluminium, aluminums, americium, ammoniacs, ammoniate, ammonites, ammonitic, ammoniums, ammonoids, amoralism, animalism, camomiles, chammying, chamomile, cimbaloms, clammiest, commissar, committal, dogmatism, dreamtime, dynamisms, embalming, familisms, filmmaker, firmament, flimflams, formalism, formamide, gammadion, gammoning, gemmating, gemmation, germanium, gymnasium, hammering, hamminess, harmonium, humanisms, imbalmers, imbalming, immanence, immanency, immatures, immediacy, immediate, immigrant, immigrate, immolated, immolates, immolator, immorally, immortals, immovable, immovably, immutable, immutably, macadamia, machismos, machzorim, magnesium, magnetism, mahimahis, mailbombs, mainframe, mainmasts, makimonos, malemiuts, mamaligas, mammalian, mammering, mammillae, mammonism, mammonist, mannerism, manubrium, mapmaking, marimbist, marsupium, masochism, masuriums, matrimony, maximally, maximised, maximises, maximites, maximized, maximizer, maximizes, mazaedium, mealtimes, meantimes, mechanism, melamines, melanisms, melismata, memorials, memsahibs, mentalism, metameric, miasmatic, microbeam, microgram, middleman, midrashim, midstream, milkmaids, milligram, mincemeat, minicamps, minimally, minimaxes, minuteman, misaiming, misbecame, misclaims, misframed, misframes, mismaking, mismanage, mismarked, mismating, misnaming, monachism, monadisms, monatomic, monoamine, monogamic, monomania, monomials, moralisms, mortmains, mosaicism, mridangam, mullahism, multiatom, mutualism, nomadisms, ommatidia, oriflamme, pantomime, pemmicans, psammites, racemisms, rummaging, samariums, scramming, scrimmage, semicomas, semimatte, semimetal, seminomad, shamanism, shammasim, shammosim, shammying, smarmiest, stemmatic, summaries, summarily, summarise, summarize, summating, summation, summative, swimmable, talmudism, timberman, timpanums, ultimatum, unjamming, vampirism, yammering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 61 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0061 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43796779 |
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