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Mussulman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmʌsəlmən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Classical Persian مُسَلْمَان (musalmān)bor. Ottoman Turkish مسلمانbor. Italian musulmanobor. English Mussulman From Italian musulmano, from Ottoman Turkish مسلمان (müsliman), from Classical Persian مُسَلْمَان (musalmān), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim), from أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama). Etymologically not a compound of man, though the plural Mussulmen shows it was sometimes reinterpreted as such.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A Muslim.
   • 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. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 71:
   • The firſt Emperor of the Muſlemans was Muhammed Abulcaſim of glorious memory. 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, book, page 1013:
   • […] 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. 1819, Henry Tudor Farmer, Imagination; the Maniac's Dream: And Other Poems, page 157:

Forms

Deriveds

Mussulmanic · Mussulmanism · Mussulmanish

Translations (9)

hi मुस्लिम (archaic: a Muslim) · de Muselmane (archaic: a Muslim) · hi मुसलमानी (archaic: a Muslim) · hi मुसलमान (archaic: a Muslim) · pt maometano (archaic: a Muslim) · sv muselman (archaic: a Muslim) · hi मुहम्मदी (archaic: a Muslim) · nl muzelman (archaic: a Muslim) · hi मुसलिम (archaic: a Muslim)