imam
noun
the officiating priest of a mosque.
imaum
-
a variation of
imam.
Example Sentences
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"Precisely so, your eminence; even now the most reverend imaum of the town is ready to perform the ceremonial."
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng
The men attacked the meal ravenously, while the imaum, seated tailorwise on a low divan, watched them with studious gravity.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
They passed down long passages; they came to a door which the imaum, who hobbled in front, unlocked.
From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard
Religious Services.—The imaum came once to hold a Mahometan service, but the interned women expressed no desire that he should repeat his visit.
From Turkish Prisoners in Egypt A Report by the Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross by International Committee of the Red Cross
Calling to one of his council, that same old imaum who had planned the casting of the lots, the Sultan spoke with him aside.
From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard
