"isha" meaning in English

See isha in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Arabic عِشَاء (ʕišāʔ, “evening, night”), in صَلَاةُ العِشَاء (ṣalātu l-ʕišāʔ, “night prayer”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|عِشَاء||evening, night}} Arabic عِشَاء (ʕišāʔ, “evening, night”), {{root|en|ar|ع ش و}} Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} isha (uncountable)
  1. (Islam) The evening/night Islamic prayer. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: evening prayer Translations (evening or night prayer): صَلَاة اَلْعِشَاء (ṣalāt al-ʕišāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), عِشَاء (ʕišāʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), пхьуьйр-ламаз (pḥʳüür-lamaz) (Chechen), 宵禮 /宵礼 (xiāolǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 虎夫摊 (hǔfūtān) (Chinese Mandarin), Ischa (German), ઇશા (iśā) [feminine] (Gujarati), lisha (Hausa), isya (Indonesian), خۄفتَن (khọftan) (Kashmiri), құтпан (qutpan) (Kazakh), نماز عشا (namâz-e 'ešâ) (Persian), کُفتْاں (kuftāṉ) [Shahmukhi, feminine] (Punjabi), иша́ (išá) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), isha (Swahili)

Inflected forms

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