bismillah

English

Interjection

bismillah

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
   • 2013 September 20, Peter Hessler, “Keeping The Faith”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.

Related terms

• basmala

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic بِسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bis‧mil‧lah

Noun

bismillah (definite accusative bismillahı, uncountable)

1. (Islam) Bismillah
2. (figurative) the beginning of something
   • 2023 March 20, “Bilim bizi kurtarabilir mi?” (1:32:58 from the start), in Teke Tek Bilim‎^[2]:

     Bu, [Steno'nun kitabı] jeolojinin bismillahı.

     This [a book by Nicolas Steno] is the beginning of geology.

Derived terms

• bismillah demek

Related terms

• besmele

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bismillah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• bismillah in Turkish dictionaries at Dil Derneği.
• “bismillah”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu