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Etymology
Borrowed from Italian musulmano, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مسلمان, borrowed from Classical Persian مُسَلْمَان (musalmān), borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim), from أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama).
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Mussulman (plural Mussulmans or Mussulmen)
- (archaic) A Muslim.
1626, George Emalcin, “The Saracenical History, Written in Arabike Englished, Abridged, and Continued to the End of the Chalifa’s”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Purchas His Pilgrimes. , 5th part, London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, , →OCLC, page 1013:
1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157:[…] look at these Christians closely, and you will abhor them. They are the worshippers of gold, not the followers of Alla. The poorest Mussulman has more hospitality than their Cadi; more charity than their Imans; more honesty than their Viziers.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 71:The imagination of the Hindoo paints his Swergas as "profuse of bliss," and all the joys of sense are collected in the Paradise of the Mussulman.
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