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Muslim Ummah

Muslim Ummah

6.4
A worldwide community of Muslims who feel connected to each other
  • noun
  • /ˈmʊzlɪm ˈʊmə/
translation icon : Ummah musulmana
  • During Ramadan, the Muslim Ummah gathers to pray and reflect on their faith.

Examples

  • The Muslim Ummah stands together to support those in need around the world.

  • The Muslim Ummah is slated to continue living in darkness while the rest of the world moves ahead.

    Blog text (27)

  • Caliphate is the system of government established in Islam and represents the leader's unity of the Muslim Ummah community.

    Blog text (5)

  • "The Muslim Ummah received with extreme bitterness your hypocritical statements and stances towards Israel, which confirmed to the Ummah that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims.

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  • The challenges faced by the Muslim Ummah require strong unity and collaboration among its members.

Synonyms

Ummah
vsMuslim Ummah
5 9.9

A global community of Muslims connected by their religion

has identical meaning but is a more common single-word form
Umma
vsMuslim Ummah
1 7.5

A worldwide community of Muslims who share the same religion

has identical meaning but is an alternate transliteration of the same word
Islamic Ummah
vsMuslim Ummah
6.1

A worldwide community of Muslims who share the same faith

means the same but includes an explicit descriptive adjective

How Large

Muslim Ummah
6.4

Surface Forms

Muslim Ummah singular
Muslim Ummahs plural

Morphology

Muslim + Ummah

The meaning 'worldwide community of Muslims' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'Muslim' (an individual believer) with 'Ummah' (a community of Muslims). This is a straightforward noun+noun composition with no idiomatic shift, so learners who know both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Muslim Ummah comes from Arabic words: Muslim (a follower of Islam) and Ummah (a 'community' or 'people'). It first named the early group of believers who shared the same faith, so today Muslim Ummah means the worldwide community of Muslims.