Where does “imam” come from?
imam (Romanian) comes from Ottoman Turkish امام, from Arabic إمام, from Arabic م, from Proto-Semitic šamaʿ-.
imam (Romanian): imam
Ancestry of “imam”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | امام | imam |
| 2 | Arabic | إمام | leader, example, exemplar, paragon; imam;... |
| 3 | Arabic | م | a prefix used to create nouns of place; a prefix... |
| 4 | Proto-Semitic | šamaʿ- | — |