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Muslim

[ muhz-lim, mooz-, moos- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam.


noun

, plural Mus·lims, Mus·lim.
  1. an adherent of Islam.

Muslim

/ ˈmʌz-; ˈmʊzlɪm /

noun

  1. a follower of the religion of Islam
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or relating to Islam, its doctrines, culture, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈMuslimism, noun
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Other Words From

  • an·ti-Muslim adjective noun plural antiMuslims antiMuslim
  • half-Mus·lim adjective noun plural halfMuslims halfMuslim
  • non-Mus·lim adjective noun plural nonMuslims nonMuslim
  • pre-Mus·lim adjective noun plural preMuslims preMuslim
  • pro-Mus·lim adjective noun plural proMuslims proMuslim
  • pseu·do-Mus·lim adjective noun plural pseudoMuslims pseudoMuslim
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Muslim1

< Arabic, literally, a person who submits. See Islam
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Muslim1

C17: from Arabic, literally: one who surrenders
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Example Sentences

At the time, Texas allowed only Christian and Muslim chaplains to attend executions.

Stand-up comedy is still in a nascent stage in India, and Faruqui was among a small group of comics and an even smaller group of Muslim comics.

From Time

Indonesia is a majority Muslim country, but Aceh is the only province with Shariah law.

Much of it is a backlash to immigration in general and Muslim communities in particular.

If you think about it, the biggest mistake in a way in the partition of Pakistan and India was all the Muslim-majority areas became Pakistan, so the people who were left in India are scattered around.

From Ozy

Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.

Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.

In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.

The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.

He sees himself as the first Muslim president of all Europe.

From the Muslim schools of Arabia came the first teachers of modern science to Europe.

He washed and went through the mummery of muslim prayers for the watchful mullah's sake, and climbed on to his bed.

A most important Muslim tradition says that Muhammad declares this sura to be equal to a third of the rest of the Koran.

Said by Muslim commentators to be one of the last ten nights of Ramadhan, the seventh of those nights reckoning backwards.

Muslim commentators hold that the Paraclete (Comforter) promised in John xvi.

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