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hikmah

hikmah noun: wisdom and understanding about the divine.

Noun

hikmah (countable and uncountable, plural hikmahs)

  1. Wisdom and understanding about the divine.
    • Therefore to study hikmah (theosophy) is to undertake a journey towards God; towards divinity; in other words, to al-Haklm1996, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, History of Islamic Philosophy, →ISBN, page 947
    • Furthermore, the Qur'anic concept of hikmah, or wisdom, together with the concept of kitab, constitute the content of the Divine curriculum (kitab wa hikmah) that different historical societies were initiated into.2013, Abdullah Sahin, New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation, →ISBN

Forms of hikmah

pluralhikmahs

Origin of hikmah

Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).

Questions about hikmah

What does hikmah mean?
Hikmah means wisdom and understanding about the divine.
What part of speech is hikmah?
Hikmah is a noun.
What is the plural of hikmah?
The plural of hikmah is hikmahs.

Words near hikmah in the dictionary

  1. hikings
  2. hikiotoshi
  3. hikkake
  4. hikki
  5. hikkis
  6. hikmah
  7. hikmahs
  8. hikmat
  9. hikmats
  10. Hiko
  11. hikoi

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