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English
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)
- A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
- The 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.
- A male given name.
- A surname
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- (religions) religion; agnosticism, Asatru, atheism, Ayyavazhi, Baháʼí Faith, Bon, Buddhism, Cao Dai, Cheondoism, Christianity, deism, Druidry, Druze, Eckankar, Heathenry, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Jediism, Judaism, Kimbanguism, Odinism, paganism, Pastafarianism, Raëlism, Rastafarianism, Rodnovery, Romuva, Samaritanism, Sanamahism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Tengrism, Thelema, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Yahwism, Yazidism, Yoruba, Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion)
- (subdivisions): Sunni, Shi'a, Ibadi
Derived terms
Translations
Abrahamic religion
- Afrikaans: Islam
- Albanian: Islam
- Amharic: እስልምና (ʾəsləmna), ኢስላም (ʾislam)
- Arabic: الْإِسْلَام (ar) m (al-ʔislām)
- Egyptian Arabic: إسلام m (ʔislām)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܠܵܡ m (islam), ܐܸܫܠܵܡ m (išlam)
- Classical Syriac: ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ
- Armenian: իսլամ (hy) (islam)
- Assamese: ইছলাম ধৰ্ম (isolam dhormo), ইছলাম (isolam)
- Asturian: islam (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: İslam (az)
- Bashkir: ислам (islam)
- Basque: Islam, islamismo
- Belarusian: ісла́м (be) m (islám), мусульма́нства n (musulʹmánstva), ісля́м m (isljám), магамета́нства n (mahamjetánstva), ісьля́м m (isʹljám)
- Bengali: ইসলাম (bn) (islam)
- Breton: Islam
- Bulgarian: исля́м (bg) m (isljám), мохамеда́нство (bg) n (mohamedánstvo)
- Burmese: အစ္စလမ် (acca.lam), အစ္စလာမ်ဘာသာ (acca.lambhasa)
- Catalan: islam (ca) m, islamisme m
- Chechen: ислам class d (islam), бусалба дин (busalba din)
- Chichewa: Chisilamu
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 回教 (wui4 gaau3), 伊斯蘭教 / 伊斯兰教 (ji1 si1 laan4 gaau3), 清真教 (cing1 zan1 gaau3)
- Dungan: йисламу (yislamu), хуэйхуэй җё (hueyhuey ži͡o)
- Hakka: 回教 (Fì-kau), 伊斯蘭教 / 伊斯兰教 (Yî-sṳ̂-làn-kau)
- Hokkien: 回教 (zh-min-nan) (Hôe-kàu, Hê-kàu), 伊斯蘭教 / 伊斯兰教 (I-su-lân-kàu)
- Mandarin: 回教 (zh) (huíjiào), 伊斯蘭教 / 伊斯兰教 (zh) (yīsīlánjiào), 清真教 (zh) (qīngzhēnjiào)
- Corsican: islam
- Crimean Tatar: İslâm
- Czech: islám (cs) m
- Danish: islam (da)
- Dhivehi: އިސްލާމް (islām̊)
- Dutch: islam (nl) m
- Esperanto: islamo (eo)
- Estonian: islam
- Finnish: islam (fi)
- French: Islam (fr) m
- Friulian: Islam
- Galician: islam (gl) m, islamismo (gl) m
- Georgian: ისლამი (ka) (islami)
- German: Islam (de) m
- Greek: Ισλάμ (el) n (Islám)
- Gujarati: ઇસ્લામ (islām)
- Hausa: Islam, addinin Islama
- Hebrew: אִסְלָאם m ('islám)
- Hindi: इस्लाम (hi) m (islām), इसलाम (hi) m (islām)
- Hungarian: iszlám (hu)
- Icelandic: íslam
- Igbo: islam
- Indonesian: Islam (id)
- Irish: an tIoslam m, Mahamadachas m (dated)
- Italian: islam (it)
- Japanese: イスラム教 (ja) (イスラムきょう, isuramu-kyō), 回教 (ja) (かいきょう, kaikyō)
- Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಂ (islāṃ)
- Kazakh: Исләм (İsläm)
- Khmer: អិស្លាម (ʼihslaam), សាសនាអិស្លាម (saasnaa ʾihslaam)
- Kikuyu: uithiramu
- Korean: 이슬람교 (ko) (iseullamgyo), 회교(回敎) (hoegyo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئیسلام (ckb) (îslam)
- Northern Kurdish: Îslam (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Ислам (ky) (İslam)
- Lao: ອິດສະລາມ (ʼit sa lām), ສາສະຫນາອິດສະລາມ (sā sa nā ʼit sa lām)
- Latin: islam m, religio islamica f
- Latvian: islams m
- Lithuanian: islamas m
- Luganda: obusiraamu
- Macedonian: ислам m (islam)
- Maithili: इसलाम (islām)
- Malay: Islam (ms), agama Islam
- Malayalam: ഇസ്ലാം (ml) (islāṁ)
- Maltese: Iżlam m
- Manx: yn Islam
- Maori: Ihirama, Mōhāmetatanga
- Marathi: इस्लाम (islām)
- Marwari: इस्लांम (islā̃m)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ислам (mn) (islam)
- Nepali: इस्लाम (islām)
- Newar: इस्लाम (islāma)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: islam (no) m
- Nynorsk: islam m, muhammedanisme m
- Odia: ଇସଲାମ ଧର୍ମ (isalāma dharma)
- Ossetian: пысылмон дин (pysylmon din)
- Pashto: اسلام (ps) m (islām)
- Persian:
- Dari: اِسْلَام (islām)
- Iranian Persian: اِسْلام (eslâm)
- Polish: islam (pl) m
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian: islã (pt) m
- European: islão (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਇਸਲਾਮ (pa) (isalām)
- Shahmukhi: اسلام (pnb) (islām)
- Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
- Romani: islam, islamsko religija
- Romanian: islam (ro)
- Russian: исла́м (ru) m (islám), мусульма́нство (ru) n (musulʹmánstvo), магомета́нство (ru) n (magometánstvo)
- Samoan: isalama
- Sanskrit: इस्लामधर्म (islāmadharma)
- Sardinian: islam
- Scots: Islam
- Scottish Gaelic: Ioslam
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѝсла̄м m
- Roman: ìslām (sh) m
- Sindhi: اسلام (sd)
- Sinhalese: ඉස්ලාම් (islām)
- Slovak: islám m
- Slovene: islam (sl) m
- Somali: Islaam
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Islam m
- Upper Sorbian: islam m
- Spanish: islamismo (es) m, islam (es) m
- Swahili: Uislamu (sw)
- Swedish: islam (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠁꠍꠟꠣꠝ (isólam), ꠁꠍꠟꠣꠝ ꠗꠞ꠆ꠝꠧ (isólam dórmo)
- Tagalog: Islam
- Tajik: Ислом (tg) (Islom)
- Tamil: இசுலாம் (ta) (iculām)
- Tatar: ислам (tt) (islam), Ислам (İslam)
- Telugu: ఇస్లాం మతం (islāṁ mataṁ)
- Thai: อิสลาม (th) (ìt-sà-laam), ศาสนาอิสลาม (th) (săa-sà-ná ìt-sà-laam)
- Tibetan: དབྱི་སི་ལམ་ཆོས་ལུགས། (dbyi si lam chos lugs), ཁ་ཆེ (kha che)
- Turkish: İslam (tr)
- Turkmen: Yslam
- Ukrainian: ісла́м m (islám), мусульма́нство n (musulʹmánstvo), магомета́нство n (mahometánstvo)
- Urdu: اِسْلام (ur) m (islām)
- Uyghur: ئىسلام (islam)
- Uzbek: islom (uz), Islom
- Vietnamese: Islam giáo, Hồi giáo (vi), (回教)
- Volapük: slam (vo)
- Welsh: Islam f
- Wolof: Lislaam
- Yiddish: איסלאַם m (islam)
- Yoruba: Islam, ẹsin Islam
- Zhuang: Yihswhlanzgyau
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See also
Further reading
Anagrams
- mails, Smail, Slami, alims, salmi, Salim, Malis, Simla, Milas, simal, Smila, limas, smail, misal, malis, amils
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islam m
- Islam
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Islams or Islam)
- Islam
- Synonym: (dated) Mohammedanismus
See also
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay Islam, from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islam
- (religion, Islam) Islam.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
Further reading
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islam (Jawi spelling إسلام)
- (religion) Islam
Affixations
Compounds
Descendants
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission”), possibly through Spanish, English, or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islám (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜎᜋ᜔)
- Islam
- Synonyms: Islamismo, Mahometismo
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Welsh
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islam m or f
- Islam
References
- Griffiths, Bruce, Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995) Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN