Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hikmah

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: hikmah
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Wisdom and understanding about the divine.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Therefore to study hikmah (theosophy) is to undertake a journey towards God; towards divinity; in other words, to al-Haklm"
"Furthermore, the Qur'anic concept of hikmah, or wisdom, together with the concept of kitab, constitute the content of the Divine curriculum (kitab wa hikmah) that different historical societies were initiated into."
"As such, hikmah is the knowing of the idea and reality of the Universal Truth of Divine Creation; that is to say, hikmah is the knowing of the Truth of God -- as Ibn Sina wrote, it encompasses Divine Science."

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).

Usage

Inflected Forms

hikmahs (plural)

Questions

What does hikmah mean?: Wisdom and understanding about the divine.
Where does hikmah come from?: Borrowed from Arabic حِكْمَة (ḥikma).

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