bismillah

English

Interjection

bismillah

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
    • 2013 September 20, Peter Hessler, “Keeping The Faith”, in The New Yorker:
      Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic بِسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, in the name of God).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bis‧mil‧lah

Noun

bismillah (definite accusative bismillahı, uncountable)

  1. (Islam) Bismillah
  2. (figurative) the beginning of something
    • 2023 March 20, “Bilim bizi kurtarabilir mi?” (1:32:58 from the start), in Teke Tek Bilim:
      Bu, [Steno'nun kitabı] jeolojinin bismillahı.
      This [a book by Nicolas Steno] is the beginning of geology.

Derived terms

  • bismillah demek
  • besmele

References

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