Where does “ulema” come from?
Ulema comes from Arabic عُلَمَاء, the plural of عَالِم, derived from the verb عَلِمَ meaning to know, ultimately from Proto-Semitic walad-.
ulema (English): plural of alim; the guardians of legal and...
Definitions
- plural of alim; the guardians of legal and...
Ancestry of “ulema”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | علما | — |
| 2 | Arabic | عُلَمَاء | — |
| 3 | Arabic | عَالِم | knowing, learned, also scholar; learned one;... |
| 4 | Arabic | عَلِمَ | to know, to perceive, to distinguish |
| 5 | Arabic | ل | to, for, belonging to; لَـ •; Used to express... |
| 6 | Proto-Semitic | *lV- | for, to |
Words derived from “ulema”