Definitions for Sunnite

Sunnite Sun·nite

Spelling: [soo n-ahyt]
IPA: /ˈsʊn aɪt/

Sunnite is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in Sunnite (einnstu).

Definitions for Sunnite

noun

  1. Sunni (def 1).

Origin of Sunnite

See origin at Sunni, -ite1

Examples for Sunnite

The Khan was a person of refinement and culture; he was very tolerant, and to him Sunnite or Shi-ite was the same thing.

The Persians are mostly Shyites, and refuse to receive the Sunnite traditions.

Omar, a Sunnite, obtained the leadership in 634, and proceeded to carry out the prophet's ambitious schemes of conquest.

I squatted down, unheeded in the midst of the crowd of hungry Shi-ite and Sunnite pilgrims.

Hitherto all movements of religious reform in Sunnite Islam had followed the lines not of development, but of retrogression.

Vambry, who proposed to visit all these fanatic states, had then adopted the character of a pious and zealous Sunnite.

But it appears never to have professed the Druse creed, remaining Sunnite.

This is especially the case with slaves who belong to the Sunnite sect.

Only a few of the Sunnite doctors acknowledge the Shyites to be Moslems.

Even the hospitality enjoined by the Koran is displayed only towards the orthodox Sunnite sect.

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