AL-UMMAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Ummah mean? 

• AL-UMMAH (noun)
  The noun AL-UMMAH has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998

  Familiarity information: AL-UMMAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AL-UMMAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)