muslim
/ˈmɐz.ləm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.
noun
A 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).
name
A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Unfortunately, unlike “secular Jew” or “cultural Jew”, the term “cultural Muslim” isn’t widely understood."
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".
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: مُسْلِم, س ل م
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɐz.ləm/
- British English: /ˈmʊz.lɪm/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.