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umma

umma is the alternative spelling of ummah.

Meaning of ummah

Noun

ummah (plural ummahs)

  1. The worldwide Muslim community.
    • That concept of a united ummah has survived all subsequent divisions in Islam, including the great and so far permanent rupture between Sunni and Shī‘a [...].2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 258

Noun capitalized: uMMA

uMMA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of urinary methylmalonic acid: a test for vitamin B12 deficiency.

Forms of umma

pluralummas

Questions about umma

What is umma the alternative spelling of?
Umma is the alternative spelling of ummah.
What part of speech is umma?
Umma is a noun.
What is the plural of umma?
The plural of umma is ummas.

Words near umma in the dictionary

  1. umm
  2. Umm al Qaywayn
  3. Umm al Quwain
  4. Umm al-Quwain
  5. Umm Qasr
  6. umma
  7. ummah
  8. ummahs
  9. ummas
  10. ummed
  11. umming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umma (page history and authors); uMMA (page history and authors); ummah (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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