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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Arabic
Origin: sunniy, from sunnah; SUNNA

Sunni

 noun
     
Related topics: Islam
Sun‧ni [countable]
RRI a Muslim who follows one of the two main branches of the Muslim religion [↪ Shiite]
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