Islam

See also: İslam, İslâm, islam, islám, and íslam

English

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Etymology

Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, submission, surrender), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪs.lɑːm/, /ˈɪz.lɑːm/, /ɪsˈlɑːm/, /ɪzˈlɑːm/, or with /-læm/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Proper noun

Islam (usually uncountable, plural Islams)

  1. A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Islam.
    1. The Muslimdom (the sphere of influence of the religion).
      • 2003, Jacques Verger, edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, Patterns, pages 35–76:
        It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the medieval West, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Islam, or China, were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A surname

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.slam/

Proper noun

Islam m

  1. Islam

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪsˈlaːm/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Islam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Islams or Islam)

  1. Islam
    Synonym: (dated) Mohammedanismus

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Islam, from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɪslam]
  • Rhymes: -lam, -am, -m
  • Hyphenation: Is‧lam

Proper noun

Islam

  1. (religion, Islam) Islam.

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Derived terms

  • berislam
  • diislamkan
  • keberislaman
  • keislaman
  • mengislamkan
  • pengislaman

References

  1. Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, submission), possibly through Spanish, English, or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔisˈlam/, [ʔɪsˈlam]
  • Hyphenation: Is‧lam

Noun

Islám (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜎᜋ᜔)

  1. Islam
    Synonym: Islamismo

See also

  • isnan

Further reading

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, submission, surrender), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).

Proper noun

Islam f

  1. Islam

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
Islam unchanged unchanged Hislam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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