Islam

See also: islam, islám, íslam, İslam, and İslâm

English

Alternative forms

• Islaam, Islām

Etymology

Borrowed around 1610 from Arabic إِسْلَام‎ (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ‎ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م‎ (s-l-m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪs.lɑːm/, /ˈɪz.lɑːm/, /ɪsˈlɑːm/, /ɪzˈlɑːm/, or with /-læm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Proper noun

Islam (usually uncountable, plural Islams)

1. A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Islam.
   1. The Muslimdom (the sphere of influence of the religion).
      • 2003, Jacques Verger, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, editor, A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, Patterns, pages 35–76:

        It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the medieval West, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantium, Islam, or China, were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.

2. A male given name.
3. A surname

Synonyms

• Mohammedanism (dated, now often considered offensive)
• Moslemism, Muslimism

Hypernyms

• religion, monotheism, Abrahamism

Coordinate terms

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}
• (subdivisions): Sunni, Shi'a, Ibadi

Derived terms

• Chrislam
• Pisslam
• Prislam

Related terms

• Islamic
• Islamise, Islamize
• Islamism
• Islamist
• Islamic calendar
• Islamness
• Islamologist
• Islamology
• Islamophobia

Translations

Abrahamic religion

• Afrikaans: Islam
• Albanian: Islam
• Amharic: እስልምና (ʾəsləmna), ኢስላም (ʾislam)
• Arabic: الْإِسْلَام‎ (ar) m (al-ʔislām)

  Egyptian Arabic: إسلام‎ m (ʔislām)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܠܵܡ‎ m (islam), ܐܸܫܠܵܡ‎ m (išlam)

  Classical Syriac: ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ‎

• Armenian: իսլամ (hy) (islam)
• Assamese: ইছলাম ধৰ্ম (isolam dhormo), ইছলাম (isolam)
• Asturian: islam (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: İslam (az)
• Bashkir: ислам (islam)
• Basque: Islam, islamismo
• Belarusian: ісла́м (be) m (islám), мусульма́нства n (musulʹmánstva), ісля́м m (isljám), магамета́нства n (mahamjetánstva), ісьля́м m (isʹljám)
• Bengali: ইসলাম (bn) (islam)
• Breton: Islam
• Bulgarian: исля́м (bg) m (isljám), мохамеда́нство (bg) n (mohamedánstvo)
• Burmese: အစ္စလမ် (acca.lam), အစ္စလာမ်ဘာသာ (acca.lambhasa)
• Catalan: islam (ca) m, islamisme m
• Chechen: ислам class d (islam), бусалба дин (busalba din)
• Chichewa: Chisilamu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 回教 (wui⁴ gaau³), 伊斯蘭教／伊斯兰教 (ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ gaau³), 清真教 (cing¹ zan¹ gaau³)

  Dungan: йисламу (yislamu), хуэйхуэй җё (hueyhuey ži͡o)

  Hakka: 回教 (Fì-kau), 伊斯蘭教／伊斯兰教 (Yî-sṳ̂-làn-kau)

  Mandarin: 回教 (zh) (huíjiào), 伊斯蘭教／伊斯兰教 (zh) (yīsīlánjiào), 清真教 (zh) (qīngzhēnjiào)

  Min Nan: 回教 (zh-min-nan) (Hôe-kàu, Hê-kàu), 伊斯蘭教／伊斯兰教 (I-su-lân-kàu)

• Corsican: islam
• Crimean Tatar: İslâm
• Czech: islám (cs) m
• Danish: islam (da)
• Dhivehi: އިސްލާމް‎ (islām̊)
• Dutch: islam (nl) m
• Esperanto: islamo (eo)
• Estonian: islam
• Finnish: islam (fi)
• French: Islam (fr) m
• Friulian: Islam
• Galician: islam (gl) m, islamismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ისლამი (ka) (islami)
• German: Islam (de) m
• Greek: Ισλάμ (el) n (Islám)
• Gujarati: ઇસ્લામ (islām)
• Hausa: Islam, addinin Islama
• Hebrew: אִסְלָאם‎ m ('islám)
• Hindi: इस्लाम (hi) m (islām), इसलाम (hi) m (islām)
• Hungarian: iszlám (hu)
• Icelandic: íslam
• Igbo: islam
• Indonesian: Islam (id)
• Irish: an tIoslam m, Mahamadachas m (dated)
• Italian: islam (it)
• Japanese: イスラム教 (ja) (イスラムきょう, isuramu-kyō), 回教 (かいきょう, kaikyō)
• Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಂ (islāṃ)
• Kazakh: Исләм (İsläm)
• Khmer: អិស្លាម (ʼihslaam), សាសនាអិស្លាម (saasnaa ʾihslaam)
• Kikuyu: uithiramu
• Korean: 이슬람교 (ko) (iseullamgyo), 회교(回敎) (hoegyo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئیسلام‎ (ckb) (îslam)

  Northern Kurdish: Îslam (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Ислам (ky) (İslam)
• Lao: ອິດສະລາມ (ʼit sa lām), ສາສະຫນາອິດສະລາມ (sā sa nā ʼit sa lām)
• Latin: islam m, religio islamica f
• Latvian: islams m
• Lithuanian: islamas m
• Luganda: obusiraamu
• Macedonian: ислам m (islam)
• Maithili: इसलाम (islām)
• Malay: Islam (ms), agama Islam
• Malayalam: ഇസ്‌ലാം (is‌lāṃ)
• Maltese: Iżlam m
• Manx: yn Islam
• Maori: Ihirama, Mōhāmetatanga
• Marathi: इस्लाम (islām)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ислам (mn) (islam)

• Nepali: इस्लाम (islām)
• Newar: इस्लाम (islāma)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islam (no) m

  Nynorsk: islam m, muhammedanisme m

• Oriya: ଇସଲାମ ଧର୍ମ (isôlamô dhôrmô)
• Ossetian: пысылмон дин (pysylmon din)
• Pashto: اسلام‎ (ps) m (islām)
• Persian: اسلام‎ (fa) (eslâm)
• Polish: islam (pl) m
• Portuguese: islã (pt) m, islão (pt) m, islame (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਇਸਲਾਮ (pa) (isalām)

  Shahmukhi: اسلام‎ (pnb) (islām)

• Rajasthani: इस्लांम (islā̃m)
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romani: islam, islamsko religija
• Romanian: islam (ro)
• Russian: исла́м (ru) m (islám), мусульма́нство (ru) n (musulʹmánstvo), магомета́нство (ru) n (magometánstvo)
• Samoan: isalama
• Sanskrit: इस्लामधर्म (islāmadharma)
• Sardinian: islam
• Scots: Islam
• Scottish Gaelic: Ioslam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝсла̄м m

  Roman: ìslām (sh) m

• Sindhi: اسلام‎ (sd)
• Sinhalese: ඉස්ලාම් (islām)
• Slovak: islám m
• Slovene: islam (sl) m
• Somali: Islaam
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Islam m

  Upper Sorbian: islam m

• Spanish: islamismo (es) m, islam (es) m
• Swahili: Uislamu
• Swedish: islam (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠁꠍꠟꠣꠝ (isólam), ꠁꠍꠟꠣꠝ ꠗꠞ꠆ꠝꠧ (isólam dórmo)
• Tagalog: Islam
• Tajik: Ислом (tg) (Islom)
• Tamil: இசுலாம் (ta) (iculām)
• Tatar: ислам (tt) (islam), Ислам (İslam)
• Telugu: ఇస్లాం మతం (islāṁ mataṁ)
• Thai: อิสลาม (th) (ìt-sà-laam), ศาสนาอิสลาม (th) (săa-sà-ná ìt-sà-laam)
• Tibetan: དབྱི་སི་ལམ་ཆོས་ལུགས། (Dbyi si lam chos lugs.), ཁ་ཆེ (kha che)
• Turkish: İslam (tr)
• Turkmen: Yslam
• Ukrainian: ісла́м m (islám), мусульма́нство n (musulʹmánstvo), магомета́нство n (mahometánstvo)
• Urdu: اسلام‎ (ur) (islām)
• Uyghur: ئىسلام‎ (islam)
• Uzbek: islom (uz), Islom
• Vietnamese: Islam giáo, Hồi giáo (vi), (回教)
• Volapük: slam (vo)
• Welsh: Islam f
• Wolof: Lislaam
• Yiddish: איסלאַם‎ m (islam)
• Yoruba: Islam, ẹsin Islam
• Zhuang: Yihswhlanzgyau

See also

• Allah
• hajj
• Qur'an
• mosque
• Muslimness
• sharia law
• hadith

Anagrams

• Milas, Salim, Simla, Smail, alims, limas, mails, malis, misal, salmi, simal, smail

German

Alternative forms

• Islaam

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام‎ (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪsˈlaːm/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Islam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Islams or Islam)

1. Islam

   Synonym: (dated) Mohammedanismus

See also

• Muslim
  • Muslimin, Muslima

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Islam, from Arabic إِسْلَام‎ (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪslam]
• Rhymes: -lam, -am, -m
• Hyphenation: Is‧lam

Proper noun

Islam

1. (religion, Islam) Islam.

Alternative forms

• Selam (colloquial)

Derived terms

• berislam
• diislamkan
• keberislaman
• keislaman
• mengislamkan
• pengislaman

 

Further reading

• “Islam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام‎ (ʔislām, “submission”), possibly through Spanish, English, or Philippine languages spoken mostly by Muslims.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Is‧lam
• IPA^(key): /ʔisˈlam/, [ʔɪsˈlam]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔislam/, [ˈʔis.lɐm]

Noun

Islám (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜎᜋ᜔)

1. Islam

   Synonym: Islamismo

Related terms

• Islamista
• Muslim

 

Welsh

Alternative forms

• Islâm

Etymology

From Arabic إِسْلَام‎ (ʔislām, “submission, surrender”), verbal noun of أَسْلَمَ‎ (ʔaslama), from the root س ل م‎ (s-l-m).

Proper noun

Islam f

1. Islam

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
Islam	unchanged	unchanged	Hislam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.