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Islam

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See also: İslam, İslâm, islam, islám, and íslam

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Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)
Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor.
English Islam

    From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama). First attested in 1610.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɪs.lɑːm/, /ˈɪz.lɑːm/, /ɪsˈlɑːm/, /ɪzˈlɑːm/, or with /-læm/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

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    Islam (usually uncountable, plural Islams)

    2. A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
      • 2016 February 18, Kyung Lah, “Fearing attacks, Muslim women learn self-defense”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 12 April 2021:
        “When people see a woman covered, or she is in modest attire, that represents Islam to them,” Lbhalla says. “So as a result, we are receiving the brunt of the hostility. They take out their fears or their hate for Islam and Muslims out on us.”
      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Islam.
      1. Muslimdom (the sphere of influence of the religion).
        • 2003, Jacques Verger, edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, Patterns, pages 35–76:
          It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the medieval West, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Islam, or China, were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.
    3. A male given name.
    4. A surname.
      • 2016 February 18, Kyung Lah, “Fearing attacks, Muslim women learn self-defense”, in CNN‎[3], archived from the original on 12 April 2021:
        “When I’m dressed like this, they know,” says Lufta Islam, touching her hijab and long dress. ” ‘OK, she’s a Muslim girl.’ “

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    Albanian

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    Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

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    Islam m

    1. a male given name, Islam, from Arabic

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    Declension of Islam
    singular
    indefinite definite
    nominative Islam Islami
    accusative Islamin
    dative/ablative Islami Islamit

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      Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

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      Islam m

      1. Islam

      German

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        Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

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        Islam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Islams or Islam)

        1. Islam
          Synonym: (dated) Mohammedanismus

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        Indonesian

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        Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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        From Malay Islam, from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).[1]

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        Islam

        1. (religion, Islam) Islam

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        1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993), Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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        From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

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        Islam (Jawi spelling إسلام)

        1. (religion) Islam

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        • Indonesian: Islam

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        Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)
        Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor.
        Tagalog Islam

          Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission”), from أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama).

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          Islám (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜎᜋ᜔)

          1. Islam
            Synonyms: Islamismo, Mahometismo

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