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

English

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Etymology

Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s l m).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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:
      “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:
      “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

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Proper noun

Islam m

  1. a male given name, Islam, from Arabic

Declension

More information singular, indefinite ...

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Islam m

  1. Islam

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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

  1. Islam
    Synonym: (dated) Mohammedanismus

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