مسلم

Root
س ل م (s l m)
21 terms

Derived from the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “to surrender, to become a Muslim”).

• IPA^(key): /mus.lim/

مُسْلِم • (muslim) m (plural مُسْلِمُون (muslimūn), feminine مُسْلِمَة (muslima))

1. (Islam) Muslim

   Hyponyms: شِيعِيّ (šīʕiyy), سُنِّيّ (sunniyy)

• مُجْتَهِد (mujtahid)

مُسْلِم • (muslim) (feminine مُسْلِمَة (muslima), masculine plural مُسْلِمُون (muslimūn), feminine plural مُسْلِمَات (muslimāt))

1. Muslim
2. submitting, accepting, believing.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 29:46:

     وَلَا تُجَادِلُوا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا بِٱلَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ وَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِالَّذِي أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَإِلَهُنَا وَإِلَهُكُمْ وَاحِدٌ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ

     wa-lā tujādilū ʔahla l-kitābi ʔillā bi-llatī hiya ʔaḥsanu ʔillā allaḏīna ẓalamū minhum wa-qūlū ʔāmannā bi-llaḏī ʔunzila ʔilaynā wa-ʔunzila ʔilaykum wa-ʔilahunā wa-ʔilahukum wāḥidun wa-naḥnu lahu muslimūna

     Mufti Taqi: Do not debate with the people of the Book unless it is in the best manner, except with those of them who commit injustice. And say, “We believe in what is sent down to us and sent down to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him we submit (ourselves).”

• → Afrikaans: moslem
• → Chinese: 穆斯林 (mùsīlín)
• → Dutch: moslim
• → English: Muslim
• → German: Muslim
• → Japanese: ムスリム
• → Malay: Muslim
  • Indonesian: muslim

مُسْلِم • (muslim) m

1. a male given name

Root
س ل م (s l m)
21 terms

Derived from the passive participle of سَلَّمَ (sallama, “to preserve, to hand over intact, to accept”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.sal.lam/

مُسَلَّم • (musallam)

1. unimpaired, intact, unblemished, flawless
2. accepted, uncontested, incontestable, indisputable, incontrovertible

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سلم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

مسلم

1. Jawi spelling of Muslim.

Borrowed from Arabic مُسَلَّم (musallam).

Readings
Classical reading?	musallam
Dari reading?	musallam
Iranian reading?	mosallam
Tajik reading?	musallam

مسلم • (mosallam)

1. indisputable, incontrovertible, certain, taken for granted
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 106:

     هرچند مسلم شودت دهر سلیمی
     در دیده میاور تو چنین مختصری را

     harčand musallam šawadat dahr-i salīmī
     dar dīda miyāwar tō čunīn muxtisarī rā

     Even though Selim's destiny is obvious to you,
     Do not appear [only] so briefly before his eyes.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim). Doublet of مسلمان (mosalmân).

Readings
Classical reading?	muslim
Dari reading?	muslim
Iranian reading?	moslem
Tajik reading?	muslim

مسلم • (moslem)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of مسلمان (mosalmân, “Muslim”).

مسلم • (moslem)

1. a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Muslim.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مسلم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Root
س ل م
8 terms

Learned borrowing from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim).

• IPA^(key): /mus.lim/, [ˈmus.lɪm]

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مسلم • (muslim) (feminine مسلمة (muslime), common plural مسلمين (muslimīn))

1. Muslim

مسلم • (muslim) m (plural مسلمين (muslimīn), feminine مسلمة (muslime))

1. Muslim