मुसलमांन
See also: मुसलमान
Old Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian مسلمان (musalmān), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim). Compare Old Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਮਾਣੁ (musalamāṇu), ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨੀ f (musalamānī, “Muslim woman”), ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨੁ (musalamānu), ਮੁਸਲਿਮੁ (musalimu).
Noun
[edit]मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na)
- a Muslim
Descendants
[edit]- Hindustani:
- Hindi: मुसलमान (musalmān)
- Urdu: مُسَلْمَان (musalmān)
Further reading
[edit]- Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 559