islam
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Albanian
Etymology
Adjective
islam (feminine islame)
Noun
islam m (definite islami)
Declension
Declension of islam
Asturian
Noun
islam m (uncountable)
- Islam (religion)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (plural islams)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “islam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م (s-l-m).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: is‧lam
Noun
islam
- (historical) circumcision according to Muslim khitan rite
Verb
islam
- (historical) to perform such circumcision
Related terms
Danish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
islam
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Related terms
Finnish
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam
- the religion of Islam
Declension
| Inflection of islam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | islam | — | ||
| genitive | islamin | — | ||
| partitive | islamia | — | ||
| illative | islamiin | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | islam | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | islam | — | |
| gen. | islamin | |||
| genitive | islamin | — | ||
| partitive | islamia | — | ||
| inessive | islamissa | — | ||
| elative | islamista | — | ||
| illative | islamiin | — | ||
| adessive | islamilla | — | ||
| ablative | islamilta | — | ||
| allative | islamille | — | ||
| essive | islamina | — | ||
| translative | islamiksi | — | ||
| abessive | islamitta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
- muhamettilaisuus (archaic)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “islam”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (plural islams)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “islam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Maltese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian islam, from Arabic إسْلام (ʔislām). The related word mislem (“Muslim”) was inherited from Arabic, but all other terms are learned borrowings.
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m
- Islam (religion)
Derived terms
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
Derived terms
References
- “islam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
Derived terms
References
- “islam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English Islam, French islam, German Islam, ultimately from Arabic إسلام.
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m inan (related adjective islamski or islamicki or islamiczny)
- Islam (monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an)
- Synonym: mahometanizm
Declension
Declension of islam
Derived terms
nouns
verbs
- islamizować impf
- zislamizować pf
Related terms
adjectives
adverbs
nouns
Further reading
- islam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- islam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- islam in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
islam n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of islam (singular only)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ìslām m (Cyrillic spelling ѝсла̄м)
Declension
Declension of islam
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m inan (genitive singular islamu, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Declension of islam
Related terms
Further reading
- “islam”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
ȋslam m inan
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | ||
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| nominative | íslam | |
| genitive | íslama | |
| singular | ||
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
íslam | |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
íslamu | |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
íslamom | |
Derived terms
See also
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, “submission”).
Pronunciation
Noun
islam m (uncountable)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “islam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
islam n (indeclinable; genitive islams)
- Islam (religion)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
References
- islam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- islam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- islam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)