Mussulman

• Moosulmaun, Musalman, Musulman, Musselman

From Ottoman Turkish مسلمان (musulman), from Persian مسلمان (mosalmân, “Muslim”), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌsəlmən/

Mussulman (plural Mussulmans or Mussulmen)

1. (archaic) A Muslim.
   • 1626, George Emalcin, “The Saracenical History, […] Written in Arabike […] Englished, Abridged, and Continued to the End of the Chalifa’s”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, page 1013:

     The firſt Emperor of the Muſlemans was Muhammed Abulcaſim of glorious memory.

   • 1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157:

     […] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 71:

     The imagination of the Hindoo paints his Swergas as "profuse of bliss," and all the joys of sense are collected in the Paradise of the Mussulman.

• Mussulmanic
• Mussulmanish
• Mussulmanism

• Musulmans