sunnah
sunnah noun: (An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.
Noun (1)
sunnah (countable and uncountable, plural sunnahs)
- (An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.
Noun (2) capitalized: Sunnah
Sunnah
- Alternative form of sunnah.
sunnah meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati
sunnah in Hindi
- custom, system, way of life
- सुन्नत sunnat
- Muhammad's way of life
- सुन्नत sunnat
sunnah in Urdu
- custom, system, way of life
- سُنَّت sunnat
sunnah in Bengali
- custom, system, way of life
- সুন্নত śunnot, সুন্নৎ śunnot
- Muhammad's way of life
- সুন্নত śunnot, সুন্নৎ śunnot
sunnah in Gujarati
- custom, system, way of life
- સુન્નત sunnat
- Muhammad's way of life
- સુન્નત sunnat
More languagesFewer languages
- sunnah in Pashto
- سنت sonát
- sunnah in Arabic
- سُنَّة sunna
- sunnah in Malay
- sunnah
- Dhivehi
- ސުއްނަތް sunnat̊
Forms of sunnah
| plural | sunnahs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Sunna |
| alternative form | sunna |
Origin of sunnah
Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”).
Words formed from sunnah
Questions about sunnah
- What does sunnah mean?
- Sunnah means (An example of) Muhammad's way of life, as recorded in the hadiths, especially when viewed as a model for Muslims to emulate.
- What is sunnah in Hindi?
- Sunnah in Hindi is सुन्नत (sunnat). See Sunnah meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sunnah?
- Sunnah is a noun.
- What is the plural of sunnah?
- The plural of sunnah is sunnahs.
Words near sunnah in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sunnah (page history and authors); Sunnah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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