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Muslim

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English

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Etymology

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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".

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Noun

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Muslim (plural Muslims)

  1. An adherent 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.
    • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎[2], archived from the original on 7 July 2025:
      “At the end of the day, Jews and Muslims are cousins,” Alhomsi said.
  2. A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.[2]
    English Wikipedia has an article on:
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    • 2009, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark Goodman, Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond‎[3], →ISBN, page 9:
      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.
    • 2012, Cara Aitchison, Mei-Po Kwan, Peter Hopkins, Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging‎[4], →ISBN, page 147:
      Of course, the ⟨five⟩ pillars of faith do not represent all rituals important to Muslims; and ways were developed in which they could subsume other rituals under the politically safe rubrics of nationalism or culture, which from the earliest times until the 1980s were not generally topics attacked by the government. From this practice the concepts of 'cultural Muslim', 'ethnic Muslim' and, less frequently, 'nationalist Muslim' evolved.
    • 2020 July 6, Kia Abdullah, The i Paper‎[5]:
      Unfortunately, unlike “secular Jew” or “cultural Jew”, the term “cultural Muslim” isn’t widely understood.

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Adjective

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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.
    • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎[6], archived from the original on 7 July 2025:
      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.

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Muslim

  1. A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Muslim”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.: ≈/ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊz.ləm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/
  2. ^ Spyros A. Sofos; Roza Tsagarousianou (2013), Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks‎[1], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN

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German

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Etymology

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Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim)

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Noun

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

  1. Muslim
    Synonym: Moslem
    Antonyms: Nichtmuslim, Kafir

Declension

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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

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Hyponyms

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Hyponyms of Muslim according to religious orientation
Other hyponyms of Muslim

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “Muslim” in Duden online
  • “Muslim”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[7] (in German)

Malay

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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

  1. A Muslim.
    Synonym: orang Islam
  2. A male Muslim.

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: muslim

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Northern Kurdish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مسلم.

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Proper noun

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Muslim m

  1. a male given name

Declension

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Declension of Muslim
definite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative Muslim Muslim
construct Muslimê Muslimên
oblique Muslimî Musliman
demonstrative oblique wî Muslimî wan Musliman
vocative Muslimo Muslimino
indefinite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative Muslimek Muslimin
construct Muslimekî Muslimine
oblique Muslimekî Musliminan

Tagalog

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Etymology

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

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Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

  1. Muslim
    Synonyms: Musulman, Mahometano, Moro, (slang) dimaporo
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Adjective

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Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

  1. Muslim

Further reading

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