Islam
English
Alternative forms
- Islaam, Islām / Eslam
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/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm
Proper noun
Islam (usually uncountable, plural Islams)
- 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.
- 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.
- A male given name.
- A surname
Synonyms
- Mohammedanism (dated, now often considered offensive)
- Moslemism, Muslimism
- Islamism
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- (religions) religion; agnosticism, Asatru, atheism, Ayyavazhi, Baháʼí Faith, Bon, Buddhism, Cao Dai, Cheondoism, Christianity, deism, Druidry, Druze, Eckankar, Heathenry, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Jediism, Judaism, Kimbanguism, Odinism, paganism, Pastafarianism, Raëlism, Rastafarianism, Rodnovery, Romuva, Samaritanism, Sanamahism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Tengrism, Thelema, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Yahwism, Yazidism, Yoruba, Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
- (subdivisions): Sunni, Shi'a, Ibadi
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Abrahamic religion
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See also
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.slam/
German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪsˈlaːm/
Audio (file)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɪslam]
- Rhymes: -lam, -am, -m
- Hyphenation: Is‧lam
Alternative forms
- Selam (colloquial)
Derived terms
- berislam
- diislamkan
- keberislaman
- keislaman
- mengislamkan
- pengislaman
References
- 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
Further reading
- “Islam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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
Related terms
- Islamista
- Muslim
See also
- isnan
Further reading
- “Islam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
Welsh
Alternative forms
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