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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Sunni Muslim.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the so-called orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran. See Sunna and Shiah.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A Sunni, a follower of the Sunni branch of Islam.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Sunni.]

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