Salah or salat?
salah is a noun meaning “Alternative form of salat”; salat is a noun meaning “The obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day and…”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) salah is about 9.5 times as common as salat.
What is the difference between salah and salat?
| salah | salat | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, adjective | noun |
| Meaning | Wrong, incorrect | The obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day and the second of the five pillars of Islam |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | salats |
| Pronunciation | /səˈlɑː/ /ˈsɑlɑ/ | /səˈlɑːt/ |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words | about once in every 6 million words |
Sources: salah and salat in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of salah and salat
salah
- 1
Alternative form of salat
- 2
Wrong, incorrect
salat
- 1
The obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day and the second of the five pillars of Islam
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, salah or salat?
salah appears 1.6 times per million words; salat about once in every 6 million words.
salah 1.6 times per million wordssalat about once in every 6 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search salah vs salat?
“salah vs salat” is searched about 50 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“salat vs salah”, “salah or salat”).
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