sunnah

What does sunnah mean?

sunnah means "(Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran".

How many syllables are in sunnah?

sunnah has 2 syllables and divides as sun-nah 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.

What is another word for sunnah?

Close synonyms include Sunna, hadith. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sunnah a common word?

sunnah 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sunnah come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.