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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Ummah, Umma, Muslim Ummah, Islamic Ummah, Islam Nationnoun

    the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan

    "moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims"

Wiktionary

  1. ummahnoun

    The worldwide Muslim community.

  2. Etymology: From امة.

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  1. ummah

    Ummah is an Arabic word that primarily means "community" or "people". It commonly refers to the collective community of Islamic peoples, bound together by ties of religion. It can also refer to a community or nation with a common ethnicity, language or culture.

Wikidata

  1. Ummah

    Ummah is an Arabic word meaning "nation" or "community". It is distinguished from Sha'b which means a nation with common ancestry or geography. Thus, it can be said to be a supra-national community with a common history. It is a synonym for ummat al-Islamiyah, and it is commonly used to mean the collective community of Islamic peoples. In the context of Pan-Islamism and politics, the word Ummah can be used to mean the concept of a Commonwealth of the Believers.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Ummah in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Ummah in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Ummah in a Sentence

  1. Bin Laden:

    Bin Laden also suggests launching a massive Syrian-based army in order to defend Jerusalem from the Jewish people, as Bin Laden put it. We must remember that the road to liberating Palestine today is much closer than the one that existed before the blessed Syrian revolution, thus, the Muslim Ummah must focus its attention on the jihad in Syria.

  2. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

    Saudi Arabia's rulers, instead of shifting blame (to others), must accept their responsibility in this heavy mishap by apologizing to the Islamic Ummah and their bereft families, and meeting their obligations to that effect, the Muslim world has many questions, and the deaths of more than 1,000 people in this incident is not a minor issue; therefore, the Muslim world must think of a remedy to this issue.

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