Crossword clues for umma
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the Islamic community," founded by Muhammad and bound to one another by religious ties and obligations, 1855, from Arabic 'umma "people, community, nation."
Wiktionary
init. urinary methylmalonic acid; a test for vitamin B12 deficiency
Wikipedia
Umma (modern Umm al-Aqarib, Dhi Qar Province in Iraq) was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. Until recently Umma was identified with Tell Jokha, less than 7 km to its northwest.
Umma is a genus of damselflies belonging to the family Calopterygidae.
Species include:
- Umma cincta – Broad-winged Sparklewing
- Umma declivium – Green-banded Sparklewing
- Umma electa – Metallic Sparklewing
- Umma femina – Angola Sparklewing
- Umma gumma
- Umma infumosa (syn. Sapho infumosa)
- Umma longistigma – Bare-bellied Sparklewing
- Umma mesostigma – Hairy-bellied Sparklewing
- Umma mesumbei – Cameroon Sparklewing
- Umma purpurea – Purple Sparklewing
- Umma saphirina – Sapphire Sparklewing
Umma is a 1960 Malayalam social drama film directed and produced by Kunchacko. It was the first directorial venture of Kunchacko. Its screenplay is written by Vimal while the dialogues are by P. K. Sarangapani, who was on his debut. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Moidu Padiyath. It was the first Muslim social film in Malayalam. The story of the film revolves around marital evils that prevailed in the Muslim community, particularly in the Malabar region.
The film became a huge box office success as well as gained critical praise. The famous song "Kadalivaazhakayyilirunnu" is from this film.
Umma is a Malayalam film in the banner of Saranam Pictures, Produced by K.K.Suresh Chandran & Directed by Vijayakrishnan. starring Shobha Mohan, Sreehari and Madhu in major roles. The film is inspired from Maxim Gorky's The Mother. It deals with terrorism and uneasiness spreading in the society connected with religion.
Umma is the first film in Malayalam to use the technology of Cinevator, which is a film recorder that operates real time. It premierred at FILCA, a Film Festival held at Thiruvananthapuram, and reached theatres on 26 August 2011. It was an official selection to the South Asian Film Festival.
Umma is an ancient city in Sumer.
Umma or UMMA may also refer to:
- Umma (1960 film), a Malayalam film
- Umma (2011 film), a Malayalam film
- Ummah, an Arabic word meaning community or nation
- Umma (genus), a genus of damselflies
- The University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Several political parties are called Umma Party
Usage examples of "umma".
Derkhan made her way across the room and hovered nervously by a bursting sofa until Umma Balsum indicated that she should sit.
Appearances and surroundings notwithstanding, Umma Balsum was no less a thaumaturgic expert than a senior Remaker or chimerist.
The current flowed around and around the coiled wire, visibly jolting Umma Balsum, setting her head vibrating very slightly for a few seconds.
And then Benjamin Flex broke away and stepped back, and with some mental reflex invisible to the distraught Derkhan, he told Umma Balsum that it was time for them to disengage.
The battery continued winding the little handle until Umma Balsum righted herself and walked closer, laid a peremptory hand on it.
Derkhan did not know if Umma Balsum could recall what she heard and said when she was harmonized.
Benjamin Flex broke away and stepped back, and with some mental reflex invisible to the distraught Derkhan, he told Umma Balsum that it was time for them to disengage.
When she was helping in the kitchen, Umma would sometimes smack her with her spoon if she got in the way, but no one else ever raised a hand to her.
Some nights Umma spiced the fish with sea salt and cracked peppercorns, or cooked the eels with chopped garlic.
Some days she still helped Umma cook, chopping big white mushrooms and boning fish.
Bad enough that the National Security Agency was dithering umma, umma, umma about the whereabouts of twenty million dollars.
So it was true as this umma had said in the beginning: the thing would not come in the lifetime of any man now living, nor in the lifetime of their grandchildren eight times removed, but it would come.
Basheer Alawamleh and Saraji Umma Zaid gave advice on Muslim practices, suitable hadith, and the kalima shahada.
There has never been a Muslim umma, or community, except for 23 years during the time of Mohammed.
The same forces Sadeq has been sent to confront, as representative of the umma in orbit around Jupiter.