Muslim

• Moslem (dated)

Borrowed around 1615 from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م (s l m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊz.lɪm/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈmʉz.lɪm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌz.ləm/, /ˈmʊz.lɪm/^[1]
• (more Arabized) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊs.lɪm/, /ˈmʊs.ləm/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ʌzlɪm, -ʊzlɪm, -ʊslɪm

Muslim (plural Muslims)

1. An adherent of Islam.
   • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1019: lines 19-21:

     It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus that euery Egyptian should pay an Egyptian peece of Gold, and to entertaine three dayes euery Muslim which passed that way.

   • 2006, Howard Greenstein, Kendra G. Hotz, John Kaltner, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?, →ISBN:

     Muslims invented the concept of zero, which is a foundation for the numbering system used throughout the world.

   • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 7 July 2025:

     “At the end of the day, Jews and Muslims are cousins,” Alhomsi said.

2. A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.^[2]
   • 2009, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark Goodman, Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond‎^[3], →ISBN, page 9:

     These secular Muslims, identified on the basis of cultural origin, are recognized neither by devout Muslims nor by average citizens or mainstream media in the West.

   • 2012, Cara Aitchison, Mei-Po Kwan, Peter Hopkins, Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging‎^[4], →ISBN, page 147:

     Of course, the ⟨five⟩ pillars of faith do not represent all rituals important to Muslims; and ways were developed in which they could subsume other rituals under the politically safe rubrics of nationalism or culture, which from the earliest times until the 1980s were not generally topics attacked by the government. From this practice the concepts of 'cultural Muslim', 'ethnic Muslim' and, less frequently, 'nationalist Muslim' evolved.

   • 2020 July 6, Kia Abdullah, The i Paper‎^[5]:

     Unfortunately, unlike “secular Jew” or “cultural Jew”, the term “cultural Muslim” isn’t widely understood.

• See Thesaurus:Muslim

• Abrahamist; monotheist; theist, religionist

• Sunni, Shi'a/Shiite, Sufi/Sufist, Ahle Quran, Salafite, Muwahhid, Quranist, Moorish Scientist, Ismaili/Ismailite/Ishmaelite, Zahirist, Ahmadi (controversial), 5 percenter, Ibadist, ghair muqallid, Hanafite
• jihadist/jihadi, mujahid

Muslim (comparative more Muslim, superlative most Muslim)

1. Being or relating to a believer of Islam.
   • 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:

     The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

   • 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN‎^[6], archived from the original on 7 July 2025:

     Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.

• Islamic

• non-Muslim
• kafir

Muslim

1. A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.

• “Muslim”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Muslim in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Muslim”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• limmus

• Moslem (now chiefly colloquial, but still common)
• Moslim (archaic)

Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʊslɪm/, /mʊsˈliːm/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Mus‧lim

Muslim m (strong, genitive Muslims, plural Muslime or Muslims, feminine Muslimin or Muslime or Muslima)

1. Muslim

   Synonym: Moslem

   Antonyms: Nichtmuslim, Kafir

• Mohammedaner (“Muhammedaner”) (dated)
• Mohammeder, Muhammeder (obsolete, rare)
• Muselman, Muselmann, Muselmane (archaic)
• Musel (derogatory)
• Islamit (rare)

• Abrahamit
  • Monotheist
    • Gläubiger

• Muslimin
• muslimisch
• Muslimisierung, muslimisieren
• Kulturmuslim

• “Muslim” in Duden online
• “Muslim”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[7] (in German)

Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”).

• IPA^(key): [mus.lem], [muz.lem]
• Rhymes: -lim, -im
• Hyphenation: Mus‧lim

Muslim (Jawi spelling مسلم, plural Muslimin or Muslim-Muslim)

1. A Muslim.

   Synonym: orang Islam

2. A male Muslim.

• Indonesian: muslim

• "Muslim" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• Mislim, Misliman

Borrowed from Arabic مسلم.

• IPA^(key): /mʊsˈlɪm/

Muslim m

1. a male given name

• Moslem

Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “one who submits”), possibly via English Muslim. Doublet of Musulman.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /musˈlim/ [mʊsˈlɪm]
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: Mus‧lim

Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

1. Muslim

   Synonyms: Musulman, Mahometano, Moro, (slang) dimaporo

Muslím (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜎᜒᜋ᜔) (Islam)

1. Muslim

• “Muslim”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018