"sunnah" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sunnahs [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|سُنَّة||habit, custom}} Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”), {{root|en|ar|س ن ن}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sunnah (countable and uncountable, plural sunnahs)
  1. (An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate. Wikipedia link: en:sunnah Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Islam Synonyms: sunna Related terms: Sunni Translations (Muhammad's way of life): সুন্নত (śunnot) (Bengali), সুন্নৎ (śunnot) (Bengali), sunna [feminine] (Czech), sunao (Esperanto), Sunna [feminine] (German), સુન્નત (sunnat) [feminine] (Gujarati), सुन्नत (sunnat) [feminine] (Hindi), スンナ (sunna) (Japanese), су́нна (súnna) [feminine] (Russian), sunna (Swedish) Translations (custom, system, way of life): synnet [masculine] (Albanian), سُنَّة (sunna) [feminine] (Arabic), sünnət (Azerbaijani), সুন্নত (śunnot) (Bengali), সুন্নৎ (śunnot) (Bengali), суннат (sunnat) (Chechen), 聖行 (Chinese Mandarin), 圣行 (shèngxíng, shèngxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), ސުއްނަތް (sunnat̊) (Dhivehi), sunna (Finnish), სუნა (suna) (Georgian), sunnā̀ [feminine] (Hausa), सुन्नत (sunnat) [feminine] (Hindi), sunna [feminine] (Italian), スンナ (sunna) (Japanese), сүннет (sünnet) (Kazakh), 순나 (sunna) (Korean), сүннөт (sünnöt) (Kyrgyz), sunnah (Malay), sinet (Northern Kurdish), سنت (sonát) [masculine] (Pashto), سنت (sonnat) (Persian), суна [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), suna [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), суннат (sunnat) (Tajik), сөннәт (sönnät) (Tatar), sünnet (Turkish), سنت (sunnat) [feminine] (Urdu), سۈننەت (sünnet) (Uyghur), sunnat (Uzbek)

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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sunna"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "sunnat",
      "sense": "Muhammad's way of life",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "સુન્નત"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "sunnat",
      "sense": "Muhammad's way of life",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "सुन्नत"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sunna",
      "sense": "Muhammad's way of life",
      "word": "スンナ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "súnna",
      "sense": "Muhammad's way of life",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "су́нна"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Muhammad's way of life",
      "word": "sunna"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunnah"
}

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