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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, literally “submission, surrender”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Islāmus m sg (genitive Islāmī); second declension
- (Renaissance Latin) Islam
1591, Johannes Löwenklau, André Wechel, Historiae musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae libri XVIII., →OCLC, page 46:Quinque turrium deſcenderunt; vbi paullo inferiu eſt alia quædam porta, quam Islami noſtri, ait auctor, diuino beneficio apertã inuenerunt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.