Islam

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

English

Alternative forms

• Islaam, Islām / Eslam

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/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Proper noun

Islam (usually uncountable, plural Islams)

2. 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, edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, 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.

3. A male given name.
4. A surname

Synonyms

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

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,‎ Tengrism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}
• (subdivisions): Sunni, Shi'a, Ibadi

Derived terms

• Chrislam
• Pisslam
• Prislam
• Siqatul Islam

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)

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

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

• 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 (ja) (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 (ml) (islāṁ)
• Maltese: Iżlam m
• Manx: yn Islam
• Maori: Ihirama, Mōhāmetatanga
• Marathi: इस्लाम (islām)
• Marwari: इस्लांम (islā̃m​)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ислам (mn) (islam)

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

  Bokmål: islam (no) m

  Nynorsk: islam m, muhammedanisme m

• Odia: ଇସଲାମ ଧର୍ମ (isalāma dharma)
• Ossetian: пысылмон дин (pysylmon din)
• Pashto: اسلام (ps) m (islām)
• Persian:

  Dari: اِسْلَام (fa) (islām)

  Iranian Persian: اِسْلام (fa) (eslâm)

• Polish: islam (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: islã (pt) m

  European: islão (pt) m

• Punjabi: ਇਸਲਾਮ (pa) (isalām)

  Shahmukhi: اسلام (pnb) (islām)

• 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 (sw)
• 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: اِسْلام (ur) m (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

Further reading

• Islam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mails, Smail, Slami, alims, salmi, Salim, Malis, Simla, Milas, simal, Smila, limas, smail, misal, malis, amils

French

Alternative forms

• Islâm

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.slam/

Proper noun

Islam m

1. Islam

German

Alternative forms

• Islaam

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪsˈlaːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [is.lam]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -lam, -am
• Hyphenation: Is‧lam

Proper noun

Islam (Jawi spelling إسلام)

1. (religion) Islam

Affixations

• islamkan
• keislaman
• pengislaman

 

Compounds

• Islam baka
• masuk Islam
• orang Islam / umat Islam
• rukun Islam

 

Descendants

• Indonesian: Islam

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔisˈlam/ [ʔɪsˈlam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Is‧lam

Proper noun

Islám (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜎᜋ᜔)

1. Islam

   Synonyms: Islamismo, Mahometismo

Related terms

• Islamista
• Muslim

 

See also

• isnan

 

Further reading

• “Islam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

Anagrams

• misal, limas, silam, malis, samil

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

Mutated forms of Islam

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
Islam	unchanged	unchanged	Hislam

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.