Muslim
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
The English word “Muslim” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- An adherent of Islam.
- A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.
- A member of a predominantly Muslim South Slavic ethnic group (usually a Bosniak), irrespective of actual religious beliefs (used historically in Yugoslavia but persisting to some degree in some former Yugoslav states).
adjective
proper noun
- A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
Etymology
Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith…
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