madrasah

English

The three madrasas at the Registan of Samarkand

Alternative forms

• madrasa, madrassa, medrese, medresa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈdɹæsə/

Noun

madrasah (plural madrasahs or madaris)

1. (Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.

Usage notes

• The original Arabic word is a generic word for any type of school, but in English it is usually used to refer specifically to Islamic religious schools.

Translations

school for Islamic theology

• Albanian: medrese (sq) f
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة إِسْلَامِيَّة f (madrasa ʔislāmiyya)
• Armenian: մեդրեսե (hy) (medrese)
• Azerbaijani: mədrəsə (az)
• Bashkir: мәҙрәсә (məźrəsə)
• Belarusian: медрэсэ́ n (mjedresé)
• Bengali: মাদ্রাসা (bn) (madraśa)
• Bulgarian: медресе́ n (medresé)
• Catalan: madrassa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯蘭學校／伊斯兰学校 (Yīsīlán xuéxiào)

• Finnish: madrassa (fi)
• French: médersa (fr) f
• Georgian: მედრესე (medrese)
• German: Medresse (de) f; Madrasa f
• Greek: μεντρεσές (el) m (mentresés)
• Hindi: मद्रसा m (madrasā), मदरसा (hi) m (madarsā)
• Hungarian: medresze (hu)
• Indonesian: madrasah (id)
• Italian: madrasa f
• Japanese: マドラサ (madorasa)
• Kazakh: медресе (medrese)
• Korean: 마드라사 (madeurasa)
• Kumyk: мадраса (madrasa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: medrese (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: медресе (medrese)
• Macedonian: ме́дреса f (médresa)
• Malay: madrasah (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: madrasa (no) m

  Nynorsk: madrasa m

• Pashto: مدرسه f (madrasá)
• Persian: مدرسه (fa) (madrese)
• Polish: medresa (pl) f, madrasa (pl) f
• Portuguese: madraça (pt) f, madraçal (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ (madrassā)
• Romanian: medresă f
• Russian: медресе́ (ru) n (medrɛsé, medrɛsɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медреса f

  Roman: medresa (sh) f

• Swahili: madrasa
• Tajik: мадраса (tg) (madrasa)
• Tatar: мәдрәсә (tt) (mädräsä)
• Thai: มาดราซาห์ (maa-draa-saa)
• Turkish: medrese (tr)
• Turkmen: medrese
• Ukrainian: медресе́ (uk) n (medresé)
• Urdu: مدرسہ m (madrasā)
• Uyghur: مەدرىسە (medrise)
• Uzbek: madrasa (uz)
• Yoruba: ilé kéwú

Anagrams

• adharmas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay madrasah, from Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /madˈrasah/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ra‧sah

Noun

madrasah (first-person possessive madrasahku, second-person possessive madrasahmu, third-person possessive madrasahnya)

1. (Islam, education) school.

Usage notes

In Indonesia, sekolah is used by school which is under supervision of Ministry of Education. Islamic school supervised by Ministry of Religious Affairs use madrasah.

Synonyms

• maktab
• perguruan
• sekolah

 

Derived terms

• madrasah aliah
• madrasah diniah
• madrasah ibtidaiah
• madrasah sanawiah

 

Further reading

• “madrasah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /madˈrasah/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ra‧sah

Noun

madrasah (Jawi spelling مدرسة, plural madrasah-madrasah, informal 1st possessive madrasahku, 2nd possessive madrasahmu, 3rd possessive madrasahnya)

1. (Islam, education) school.
2. (Islam) a small mosque.

   Synonyms: surau, langgar

Usage notes

Usually, sekolah is used as the generic term form "school", while madrasah refers specifically to Islamic religious schools.

Synonyms

• (school): sekolah

Further reading

• “madrasah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.