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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
umma is a noun meaning "the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan". It carries one recorded sense.
the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan
“moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims”
plural · Islam
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for umma come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.