al-ummah

1. 1.

   a terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998

   Broaderterrorist organization

   India · terrorism

Questions about al-ummah

What does al-ummah mean?

al-ummah means "a terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998".

How many syllables are in al-ummah?

al-ummah has 3 syllables and divides as a-l-um-mah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is al-ummah a common word?

al-ummah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.