basmala
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[edit]From Arabic بَسْمَلَة (basmala)
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[edit]basmala (countable and uncountable, plural basmalas)
- (Islam, countable) The prepositional phrase بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm, “In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate”).
- 2009, Juan Eduardo Campo, Encyclopedia of Islam, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:
- The basmala, also known as the tasmiya, is an Arabic word for the phrase bi- smillah ir-rahman ir-rahim, “In the name of God most compassionate, most merciful.” This is the first verse of the Quran; it begins all of its chapters but one (Q9)...
- 2006, Oliver Leaman, The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 116:
- But only Kufa and Mecca counted the basmala in al-Fatiha as verse 1, whereas the readers of Basra, Damascus and Medina did not count the basmala as a separate verse but achieved the number of seven verses by subdividing other...
- (Islam, uncountable) The act of uttering Bismillah.
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[edit]basmala
- occasions or gatherings governed by social rules
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic بَسْمَلَة (basmala).
Pronunciation
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[edit]basmala f (plural basmalas)
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