In Islam, Sunni is a more triumphant version of the faith than Shia, which stresses the importance of suffering, following the founder Ali, who was persecuted.
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Shi'a
//ˈʃiːə//
Synonyms for "shi'a" (3 found)
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29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
38 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- الشِّيعَة name (branch of Islam)
- شِيعَة عَلِيّ name (branch of Islam)
Aramaic
2 entries- ܫܝܥܐ name (branch of Islam)
- ܫܝܥܗ name (branch of Islam)
Armenian
1 entries- շիա name (branch of Islam)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- şiə name (branch of Islam)
- şiə məzhəbi name (branch of Islam)
- şiə təriqəti name (branch of Islam)
- şiəlik name (branch of Islam)
Bengali
1 entries- শিয়া name (branch of Islam)
Catalan
1 entries- xiisme name (branch of Islam)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 什葉派 /什叶派 name (branch of Islam)
Danish
1 entries- shia name (branch of Islam)
Dari
1 entries- شِیعَه name (branch of Islam)
Dutch
1 entries- sjia name (branch of Islam)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝijaismo name (branch of Islam)
Finnish
2 entries- shiialaisuus name (branch of Islam)
- šiialaisuus name (branch of Islam)
French
1 entries- chiisme name (branch of Islam)
Georgian
1 entries- შიიზმი name (branch of Islam)
German
1 entries- Schia name (branch of Islam)
Hindi
1 entries- शिया name (branch of Islam)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- شیعه name (branch of Islam)
Italian
1 entries- sciismo name (branch of Islam)
Japanese
1 entries- シーア派 name (branch of Islam)
Kazakh
1 entries- шиитшілдік name (branch of Islam)
Persian
2 entries- شِیعَةْ name (branch of Islam)
- شِیعَه name (branch of Islam)
Polish
1 entries- szyizm name (branch of Islam)
Portuguese
1 entries- xiismo name (branch of Islam)
Romanian
1 entries- șiism name (branch of Islam)
Russian
1 entries- шии́зм name (branch of Islam)
Spanish
2 entries- chiismo name (branch of Islam)
- chía name (branch of Islam)
Turkish
2 entries- Şia name (branch of Islam)
- Şiilik name (branch of Islam)
Uyghur
1 entries- شىئە name (branch of Islam)
Volapük
1 entries- jiit name (branch of Islam)
Sample sentences
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Shi’a is one of the two larger divisions of Islam, […]
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Jordanians do not know what Shi’a is about, and it was very recently, [the] last few years, when we start[ed] being exposed to Shi’a.
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But the Shī'a was not yet a sect; there can as yet be no division of Islam between Shi'ite and Sunni.
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