Muslim

See also: muslim

English

Alternative forms

• Moslem (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s-l-m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
• (more Arabized) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊs.lɪm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌzlɪm, -ʊzlɪm, -ʊslɪm

Noun

Muslim (plural Muslims)

1. A person who is a follower and believer of Islam.
   • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1019: lines 19-21:

     It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus that euery Egyptian should pay an Egyptian peece of Gold, and to entertaine three dayes euery Muslim which passed that way.

   • 2006, Howard Greenstein, Kendra G. Hotz, John Kaltner, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?, →ISBN:

     Muslims invented the concept of zero, which is a foundation for the numbering system used throughout the world.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:Muslim

Hypernyms

• Abrahamist; monotheist; theist, religionist

Hyponyms

• Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi/Sufist, Ahle Quran, Salafite, Muwahhid, Quranist, Moorish Scientist, Ismaili/Ismailite, Zahirist, Ahmadi (controversial), 5 percenter, Ibadist, ghair muqallid, Hanafite
• jihadist/jihadi, mujahid

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; agnostic,‎ Asatruar,‎ atheist,‎ Baháʼí,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Druze,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Quaker,‎ Raëlian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Rodnover,‎ Samaritan,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Yahwist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• anti-Muslim
• anti-Muslimism
• anti-Muslimist
• anti-Muslimness
• Black Muslim
• Cape Muslim
• Christo-Muslim
• cyber-Muslim
• de-Muslimize
• demuslimize
• I'm a Muslim
• inter-Muslim
• intra-Muslim
• Muslimaniac
• Muslimcentric
• Muslimdom
• Muslimese
• Muslimess
• Muslimest
• Muslimette
• Muslimhood
• Muslimic
• Muslimicide
• Muslimification
• Muslimify
• Muslimish
• Muslimism
• Muslimist
• Muslimistic
• Muslimite
• muslimity
• Muslimize
• Muslimless
• Muslimlover
• Muslimly
• Muslimness
• Muslimo-
• Muslimofascist
• Muslimoid
• Muslimologist
• Muslimology
• muslimonazi
• Muslimophile
• Muslimphobe
• Muslimphobia
• Muslimphobic
• Muslimship
• Muslimstan
• muslimtard
• Muslimville
• Muslim Zionism
• neo-Muslim
• non-Muslim
• out-Muslim
• pan-Muslimism
• philo-Muslim
• post-Muslim
• pre-Muslim
• pro-Muslim
• promuslim
• proto-Muslim
• pseudo-Muslim
• Sahih Muslim
• semi-Muslim
• Sylheti Muslim
• Sylhet Muslim
• un-Muslim

 

Translations

believer of Islam

• Afrikaans: moslem, moslema f
• Albanian: mysliman (sq) m, myslimane (sq) f
• Amharic: ሙስሊም (muslim)
• Arabic: مُسْلِم (ar) m (muslim), مُسْلِمَة f (muslima)
• Armenian: մահմեդական (hy) (mahmedakan)
• Aromanian: musliman m
• Assamese: মুছলমান (musolman)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܸܫܠܡܵܢܵܐ m (mišlmana), ܡܸܫܠܡܵܢܬܵܐ f (mišlmanta)
• Avar: бусурманчи (busurmanči), бусургьан (busurhan)
• Azerbaijani: müsəlman (az)
• Bashkir: мосолман (mosolman)
• Belarusian: мусульма́нін m (musulʹmánin), мусульма́нка f (musulʹmánka)
• Bengali: মুসলিম (bn) (muslim), মুসলমান (bn) (musolman)
• Breton: muzulman m
• Bulgarian: мюсюлма́нин (bg) m (mjusjulmánin), мюсюлма́нка f (mjusjulmánka), мохамеда́нин (bg) m (mohamedánin), мохамеда́нка f (mohamedánka)
• Burmese: မွတ်စလင် (my) (mwatca.lang)
• Catalan: musulmà (ca) m
• Chechen: бусалба (busalba)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 穆斯林 (muk⁶ si¹ lam⁴), 伊斯蘭教徒 / 伊斯兰教徒 (ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ gaau³ tou⁴), 回教徒 (wui⁴ gaau³ tou⁴)

  Mandarin: 穆斯林 (zh) (mùsīlín), 伊斯蘭教徒 / 伊斯兰教徒 (zh) (Yīsīlán jiàotú), 回教徒 (zh) (huíjiàotú)

• Chuvash: мусульман (mus̬ulʹman), мӑсӑльман (măs̬ălʹman)
• Coptic: ⲗⲁϩⲙⲓ m (lahmi), ⲗⲁⲙⲓⲧⲏⲥ m (lamitēs)
• Cornish: Moslem m, Moslemes f, Sarsyn m
• Crimean Tatar: musulman
• Czech: muslim (cs) m, muslimka (cs) f
• Danish: muslim (da) c
• Dargwa: бусурман (busurman)
• Dutch: moslim (nl) m, moslima (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ཁ་ཆེ (kha che)
• Esperanto: islamano, islamanino (female)
• Estonian: muslim, moslem, musulman (et)
• Farefare: mõrɛ, mõrɛ
• Faroese: muslimur m
• Finnish: muslimi (fi)
• French: musulman (fr) m, musulmane (fr) f
• Galician: musulmán (gl) m
• Georgian: მუსულმანი (musulmani), მუსლიმი (muslimi)
• German: Muslim (de) m, Moslem (de) m (both common); Mohammedaner (de) m (dated); Muselmane (de) m (archaic); Muslimin (de) f, Muslima (de) f, Moslemin (de) (all common); Mohammedanerin (de) f (dated); Muselmanin (de) f (archaic)
• Greek: μουσουλμάνος (el) m (mousoulmános), μουσουλμάνα (el) f (mousoulmána)
• Gujarati: મુસ્લિમ (muslim), મુસલમાન (musalmān)
• Hausa: Musulmi (ha)
• Hebrew: מֻסְלְמִי / מוסלמי m (músl'mi), מוסלמית f (musl'mít)
• Hindi: मुस्लिम m (muslim), मुसलमान (hi) m (musalmān), मुसलमानी (hi) f (musalmānī), मुसलिम (hi) m (muslim), मुहम्मदी (hi) m (muhammadī), मौसुल m (mausul)
• Hungarian: muszlim (hu), muzulmán (hu)
• Icelandic: múslimi m
• Igbo: Muslim
• Indonesian: orang Muslim, Muslim
• Ingrian: mahomettiläin
• Interlingua: muslim
• Irish: Moslamach m, Mahamadach m (dated)
• Italian: musulmano (it) m, musulmana (it) f
• Japanese: ムスリム (ja) (musurimu), イスラム教徒 (ja) (イスラムきょうと, isuramu kyōto), 回教徒 (かいきょうと, kaikyōto)
• Javanese: wong Muslim
• Kannada: ಮುಸ್ಲಿಮ್ (muslim)
• Kazakh: мұсылман (mūsylman)
• Khmer: មូស្លីម (muusliim)
• Kikuyu: muithiramu
• Korean: 이슬람교도 (iseullamgyodo), 회교도(回敎徒) (hoegyodo), 무슬림 (museullim), 모슬렘 (moseullem), 무슬림 (museullim)
• Kumyk: бусурман (busurman)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: موسلمان (musilman)

  Northern Kurdish: misilman (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мусулман (musulman)
• Lak: бусурман (busurman)
• Lao: ມຸສລິມ (mut lim)
• Latin: muslimanus m
• Latvian: musulmanis m, musulmane f
• Lezgi: мусурман (musurman)
• Lingala: mozilmani
• Lithuanian: musulmonas m, musulmonė f
• Luganda: omusiraamu sg, abasiraamu pl
• Macedonian: муслиман (mk) m (musliman), муслиманка f (muslimanka)
• Malagasy: Miozolmana
• Malay: orang Muslim, Muslim (ms)
• Malayalam: മുസ്ലിം (ml) (musliṁ)
• Manipuri: ꯄꯥꯡꯒꯜ (mni) (paanggal) (archaic), ꯄꯥꯡꯒꯟ (paanggan), ꯄꯥꯡꯘꯜ (paangghal), ꯃꯨꯁ꯭ꯂꯤꯝ (moos͟leem)
• Maore Comorian: isilamu class 5/6
• Marathi: मुस्लिम (mr) (muslim), मुसलमान (musalamān)
• Mon: မူသလေန် (mnw)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мусульман (mn) (musulʹman), лал (mn) (lal)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠦᠰᠦᠯᠮᠠᠨ (müsülman), ᠯᠠᠯᠤ (lalu)

• Moore: alsɩlaama, more
• Nahuatl: mahomatlacatl
• Nepali: मुसलमान (musalmān)
• Ngazidja Comorian: isilamu class 5/6
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muslim (no) m

  Nynorsk: muslim m

• Occitan: musulman (oc) m
• Odia: ମୁସଲମାନ (musalamāna)
• Ossetian: пысылмон (pysylmon)
• Ottoman Turkish: مسلمان (müsliman)
• Pashto: مسلمان m (mosalmān), مسلم m (mosalam)
• Persian:

  Dari: مُسَلْمَان (musalmān)

  Iranian Persian: مُسَلْمان (mosalmân), مُسَلْمون (mosalmun) (colloquial, Tehrani)

• Polish: muzułmanin (pl) m, muzułmanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: muçulmano (pt) m, muçulmana (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān)
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romani: xoraxaj m, xoraxani f
• Romanian: musulman (ro) m, musulmană f
• Russian: мусульма́нин (ru) m (musulʹmánin), мусульма́нка (ru) f (musulʹmánka), магомета́нин (ru) m (magometánin) (dated), магомета́нка (ru) f (magometánka) (dated)
• Sanskrit: मौसुल (sa) m (mausula)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муслѝма̄н m, муслѝма̄нка f

  Roman: muslìmān (sh) m, muslìmānka (sh) f

• Shan: မူႇသလိမ်ႇ (mùu sǎ lìm)
• Sindhi: مسلم, مسلمان (sd)
• Sinhalese: මුස්ලිම් (muslim)
• Slovak: moslim (sk) m, moslimka (sk) f, muslim m, muslimka f
• Slovene: musliman (sl) m, muslimanka f
• Somali: muslim m
• Sotho: moselamose
• Spanish: musulmán (es) m, musulmana (es) f, muslim (es) m or f, moro (es) m
• Sundanese: Muslim
• Swahili: Mwislamu
• Swedish: muslim (sv) c
• Tajik: мусулмон (tg) (musulmon)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: مسلمون (məsəlmun)

• Tamil: முஸ்லிம் (muslim), முசல்மான் (ta) (mucalmāṉ), சோனகன் (ta) (cōṉakaṉ)
• Tatar: мөселман (tt) (möselman)
• Telugu: ముస్లిం (musliṁ), మొస్లెం (mosleṁ)
• Thai: มุสลิม (th) (mút-sà-lim)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཆེ (kha che)
• Tigrinya: ኣስላማይ (ʾaslamay)
• Turkish: Müslüman (tr)
• Turkmen: musulman
• Ukrainian: мусульма́нин m (musulʹmányn), мусульма́нка f (musulʹmánka)
• Urdu: مُسَلْمان (ur) m (musalmān), مُسْلِم m (muslim)
• Uyghur: مۇسۇلمان (ug) (musulman)
• Uzbek: musulmon (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Islam, người Hồi, người Hồi giáo
• Volapük: (♂♀) slaman (vo), (♂) hislaman, (♀) jislaman
• Welsh: Mwslim m or f, Moslem m or f
• West Frisian: Moslim
• Yiddish: מוסולמאַן m (musulman), איסלאַמער m (islamer)
• Yoruba: Musulumi
• Zulu: Muslim

Adjective

Muslim (comparative more Muslim, superlative most Muslim)

1. Being or relating to a believer of Islam.
   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

Synonyms

• Islamic

Antonyms

• non-Muslim
• kafir

Translations

relating to believers of Islam

• Afrikaans: moslem
• Arabic: إِسْلَامِيّ (ʔislāmiyy)
• Armenian: մահմեդական (hy) (mahmedakan)
• Asturian: musulmán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: müsəlman (az)
• Belarusian: мусульма́нскі (musulʹmánski)
• Breton: muzulman
• Bulgarian: мюсюлма́нски (bg) (mjusjulmánski), мохамеда́нски (bg) (mohamedánski)
• Catalan: musulmà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穆斯林 (zh) (mùsīlín), 清真 (zh) (qīngzhēn)

• Czech: muslimský (cs)
• Danish: muslimsk (da)
• Dutch: moslims (nl)
• Esperanto: muslima
• Finnish: muslimi-
• French: musulman (fr) m
• Galician: musulmán (gl)
• Georgian: მუსლიმანური (muslimanuri)
• German: muslimisch (de)
• Greek: μουσουλμανικός (el) m (mousoulmanikós)
• Gujarati: મુસ્લિમ (muslim), મુસલમાન (musalmān), મુસલમાની (musalmānī)
• Hebrew: מוסלמי (muslemi)
• Hindi: मुस्लिम (muslim), मुसलमान (hi) (musalmān), मुसलमानी (hi) (musalmānī), मौसुल m (mausul)
• Hungarian: muszlim (hu), muzulmán (hu)
• Irish: Moslamach m, Mahamadach (dated)
• Italian: musulmano (it) m
• Japanese: ムスリム (ja) (musurimu)
• Kazakh: мұсылман (mūsylman), мұсылмандық (mūsylmandyq)
• Khmer: អិស្លាម (ihslaam)
• Korean: 무슬림 (museullim)
• Kyrgyz: мусулман (musulman)
• Luganda: by'abasiraamu
• Macedonian: муслима́нски (muslimánski)
• Marathi: मुस्लिम (mr) (muslim), मुसलमान (musalamān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: muslimsk

  Nynorsk: muslimsk

• Occitan: musulman (oc)
• Persian: مسلمانی (mosalmâni)
• Polish: muzułmański (pl)
• Portuguese: muçulmano (pt)
• Romani: xoraxano
• Romanian: musulman (ro)
• Russian: мусульма́нский (ru) (musulʹmánskij)
• Sanskrit: मौसुल (sa) m (mausula)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муслимански

  Roman: muslimanski (sh)

• Slovak: muslimský
• Slovene: muslimanski (sl)
• Sotho: leselamose
• Spanish: musulmán (es), muslim (es), moro (es)
• Swahili: mwiislamu (sw)
• Swedish: muslimsk (sv)
• Tajik: мусулмонӣ (musulmoni)
• Tamil: முஸ்லிம் (muslim)
• Turkish: Müslüman (tr)
• Turkmen: musulman
• Ukrainian: мусульма́нський (musulʹmánsʹkyj)
• Urdu: مسلم (muslim), مسلمان (ur) (musalmān), مسلمانی (musalmānī)
• Uyghur: مۇسۇلمان (ug) (musulman)
• Uzbek: musulmon (uz)
• Vietnamese: muslim (vi) m, Hồi giáo (vi), đạo Hồi (vi), Hồi
• Volapük: (♂♀) slamanik, (♂) hislamanik, (♀) jislamanik
• Welsh: Mwslim (n), Mwslimaidd (a)

Further reading

• “Muslim”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Muslim in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “Muslim”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• limmus

German

Alternative forms

• Moslem (now chiefly colloquial, but still common)
• Moslim (archaic)

Etymology

Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʊslɪm/, /mʊsˈliːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Mus‧lim

Noun

Muslim m (strong, genitive Muslims, plural Muslime or Muslims, feminine Muslimin or Muslime or Muslima)

1. Muslim

   Synonym: Moslem

   Antonyms: Nichtmuslim, Kafir

Declension

Declension of Muslim [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Muslim	die	Muslime, Muslims
genitive	eines	des	Muslims	der	Muslime, Muslims
dative	einem	dem	Muslim	den	Muslimen, Muslims
accusative	einen	den	Muslim	die	Muslime, Muslims

Synonyms

• Mohammedaner (“Muhammedaner”) (dated)
• Mohammeder, Muhammeder (obsolete, rare)
• Muselman, Muselmann, Muselmane (archaic)
• Musel (derogatory)
• Islamit (rare)

Hypernyms

• Abrahamit
  • Monotheist
    • Gläubiger

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of Muslim according to religious orientation

• Alevit/Alewit
• Chardschit
• Dschabrit
• Mutazilit
• Schiit
• Sunnit
• Wahhabit

 

Other hyponyms of Muslim

• Islamist
• Radikalmuslim
• Vorzeige-Muslim

 

Derived terms

• Muslimin
• muslimisch
• Muslimisierung, muslimisieren
• Kulturmuslim

Further reading

• “Muslim” in Duden online
• “Muslim” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mus.lem], [muz.lem]
• Rhymes: -lim, -im
• Hyphenation: Mus‧lim

Proper noun

Muslim (Jawi spelling مسلم, plural Muslimin or Muslim-Muslim)

1. A Muslim.

   Synonym: orang Islam

2. A male Muslim.

Affixations

• kemusliman
• muslimkan (“to islamize”)

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: muslim

See also

• Muslimah (“a female Muslim”)

 

Further reading

• “Muslim” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Moslem

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), possibly via English Muslim. Doublet of Musulman.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /musˈlim/ [mʊsˈlim]
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: Mus‧lim

Noun

Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

1. Muslim

   Synonyms: Musulman, Mahometano, Moro, (slang) dimaporo

Related terms

• Islam
• Islamista

 

Adjective

Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

1. Muslim

Further reading

• “Muslim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018