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Muslim

nounadjectiveproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmʊz.lɪm//
  • United States//ˈmʌz.ləm//
  • United States//ˈmʊz.lɪm//
  • Scotland//ˈmʉz.lɪm//
  • //ˈmʊs.lɪm//

An adherent of Islam.

noun

  1. 1

    An adherent of Islam.

    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.

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

    “At the end of the day, Jews and Muslims are cousins,” Alhomsi said.

  2. 2

    A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.

    These secular Muslims, identified on the basis of cultural origin, are recognized neither by devout Muslims nor by average citizens or mainstream media in the West.

    Unfortunately, unlike “secular Jew” or “cultural Jew”, the term “cultural Muslim” isn’t widely understood.

  3. 3

    historicalA member of a predominantly Muslim South Slavic ethnic group (usually a Bosniak), irrespective of actual religious beliefs (used historically in Yugoslavia but persisting to some degree in some former Yugoslav states).

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".

adjective

  1. 1

    Being or relating to a believer of Islam.

    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.

    Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.

Forms

plural
Muslims
comparative
more Muslim
superlative
most Muslim
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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