Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

Get access Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
Edited by: P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs
Assisted by C. Ott, under the patronage of the International Union of Acadamies

Help us improve our service

Glossary and Index of Terms treats the technical terms in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other languages or dialects of the Islamic world. As an index, it is of immeasurable importance, in particular for the many terms which are not given an entry but are discussed in the course of an article; and as glossary it is an invaluable source of information for both non-specialist, who is given an insight into the varied and rich vocabulary of Islam, and the specialist, who may discover surprising new contexts in which a term is used.

Subscriptions: see Brill.com

ẓāʾ

(29 words)

ẓāʾ (A) : the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, with the numerical value 900. Its transliteration ẓ reflects…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabād

(18 words)

zabād (A), or sinnawr al-zabād : in zoology, the civet cat ( Viverra civetta). Sinnawr zabādī Yog̲h̲urt
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabān-i urdu

(6 words)

zabān-i urdu Urdu
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabān-i wuḳūʿ

(6 words)

zabān-i wuḳūʿ Wuḳūʿ-Gūʾī
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabāniyya

(28 words)

zabāniyya (A) : Qurʾānic term usually interpreted as the guardians of Hell or else the angels who ca…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabard̲j̲ad

(11 words)

zabard̲j̲ad : in mineralogy, the chrysolith. al-Dahnad̲j̲; and Zamurrud
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabbāl

(24 words)

zabbāl (A, Tun g̲h̲abbār) : ‘superintendent of the supply of dung-fuel for the furnace’ of a ḥammām ‘steam bath’. Ḥa…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabīb

(45 words)

zabīb (A) : dried grapes, raisins or currents. al-Zabbāʾ; or zbīb, a non-alcoholic drink made from dried grape…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabit

(4 words)

zabit Ḍābiṭ
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabr

(27 words)

zabr (A) : the act of pruning, practised in Andalusia on the grapevine to increase the vine’s produc…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabtiyye

(4 words)

zabtiyye Ḍabṭiyya
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabūr

(73 words)

zabūr (A) : term found in pre-Islamic poetry for a written text, and in the Qurʾān referring to a di…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaʿbūt

(9 words)

zaʿbūt (A) : a woollen garment. Ṣūf
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zabzab

(10 words)

zabzab (A) : in zoology, the badger. Fahd
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāde

(4 words)

zāde Og̲h̲ul
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zād̲j̲

(9 words)

zād̲j̲ (A) : in metallurgy, vitriol. Nuḥām
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zad̲j̲ad̲j̲

(13 words)

zad̲j̲ad̲j̲ (A) : in zoology, the flight of the ostrich. Mzāb
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zad̲j̲al

(80 words)

zad̲j̲al (A) : in its non-technical meaning, ‘voice, sound or cry, trilling or quavering of the voice’ (Lane). Zabūr In…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zad̲j̲d̲j̲āl

(40 words)

zad̲j̲d̲j̲āl (Leb) : in Lebanese colloquial poetry, a composer of Zad̲j̲al vernacular poetry. When contrasted to a ḳa…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zad̲j̲l

(30 words)

zad̲j̲l (A), or zid̲j̲āl : the sport of pigeon-flying, popular from the 2nd-7th/8th-13th centuries. The…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zad̲j̲r

(44 words)

zad̲j̲r (A) : often used as the equivalent of Ṭīra, ~ originally consisted of the deliberate instiga…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaʿfarān

(40 words)

zaʿfarān (A) : in botany, saffron, Crocus sativus L. or Crocus officinalis Pers. Hindustānī; Ẓafār; and Māʾ zaʿfarān I…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaffa

(16 words)

zaffa (A) : the procession of bride or bridegroom to their wedding. ʿUrs ff.
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zafzūf

(4 words)

zafzūf ʿUnnāb
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zag̲h̲al

(11 words)

zag̲h̲al (A) : in numismatics, a counterfeit coin. Tazwīr
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zag̲h̲ar

(85 words)

zag̲h̲ar (T), zag̲h̲ārī (A) : a hunting dog, hound. Ḳaṭā; Zag̲h̲anos Pas̲h̲a zag̲h̲ard̲j̲i̊ …
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zag̲h̲rada

(15 words)

zag̲h̲rada (A, pl. zag̲h̲radāt) : a trilling ululation, as uttered in joy. Makka
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaḥḥāfa

(14 words)

zaḥḥāfa Mālaḳ zaḥḥāfāt (A) : in zoology, the class of reptiles. Timbuktu
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāhid

(20 words)

zāhid (A, pl. zuhhād) : an ascetic, pious person who has given up all worldly goods. Madrasa; Ribāṭ
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

ẓāhir

(183 words)

ẓāhir (A, pl. ẓawāhir) : lit. the outward meaning of a word, language or event; in legal theory, the me…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

ẓahīr

(74 words)

ẓahīr (A) : lit. help, support; in the administration of the Muslim West, a royal decree issued by t…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zahr

(79 words)

zahr (A) : flower, blossom, more precisely, yellow flower, yellow blossom. al-Zahrāwī In prosody, in particular …
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

ẓahr

(17 words)

ẓahr (A), or ẓahriyya : in manuscript production, the recto of the first folio. ʿUnṣurī
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zahw

(15 words)

zahw (A) : a kind of date, from which wine was made. K̲h̲amr
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāʾid

(41 words)

zāʾid (A, pl. zawāʾid) : in grammar, an auxiliary consonant. Wazn; in Persian lexicography, ~ came to b…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāʾif

(4 words)

zāʾif Muzayyif
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaʿīm

(90 words)

zaʿīm (A, pl. zuʿamāʾ) : chief, leader; a tribal chief. Sayyid; Zahriyyāt In the Ottoman empire, a person in cha…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāʿir

(4 words)

zāʿir Zuʿʿār
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zāʾird̲j̲a

(48 words)

zāʾird̲j̲a (A), or zāʾirad̲j̲a : in divination, a technique that involved a mechanical means of calcula…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zakāt

(135 words)

zakāt (A) : obligatory payment by Muslims of a determinate portion of specified categories of their …
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zak̲h̲rafa

(10 words)

zak̲h̲rafa (A) : in art, ornament, ornamentation. al-Zaḳāzīḳ
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaḳḳūm

(29 words)

zaḳḳūm (A) : in eschatology, a tree growing in Hell with bitter fruit which the damned are condemned…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zakūrī

(19 words)

zakūrī (A) : in mediaeval ʿIrāḳ, bread collected as alms and intended for prisoners and beggars. Mukaddī
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaḳzaḳa

(15 words)

zaḳzaḳa (A) : the twittering of large numbers of birds in trees. al-Zaḳāzīḳ
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zaḳzūḳ

(12 words)

zaḳzūḳ (A, pl. zaḳāzīḳ) : in zoology, the carp. al-Zaḳāzīḳ
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zalīd̲j̲

(41 words)

zalīd̲j̲ (A, pl. zalāʾid̲j̲), also zallīd̲j̲ : in art, a mosaic composed of fragments of pottery squares …
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zālik̲h̲a

(4 words)

zālik̲h̲a Aṭūm
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

ẓalīm

(48 words)

ẓalīm (A) : in astronomy, two constellations ( al-ẓalīmānsup:i ), one al- ~ al-s̲h̲imālī ‘the northern male’ or μ…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zallād̲j̲

(13 words)

zallād̲j̲ (A) : a term used for a Nile boat. al-Nīl
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

zallīd̲j̲

(4 words)

zallīd̲j̲ Zalīd̲j̲
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms
▲   Back to top   ▲