Muslim
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Muslimism noun
- anti-Muslim adjectiveanti-Muslim, anti-Muslims
- half-Muslim adjectivehalf-Muslim, half-Muslims
- non-Muslim adjectivenon-Muslim, non-Muslims
- pre-Muslim adjectivepre-Muslim, pre-Muslims
- pro-Muslim adjectivepro-Muslim, pro-Muslims
- pseudo-Muslim adjectivepseudo-Muslim, pseudo-Muslims
Etymology
Origin of Muslim
< Arabic, literally, a person who submits. See Islam
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Example Sentences
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He’d just been sworn in as mayor of New York—the first South Asian, the first Muslim and the first African-born person to hold that office.
A west African journalism group specialising in security reporting said the attack was carried out by the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, better known by its acronym JNIM.
From Barron's
On the streaming side, The Great Shamsuddin Family has been praised for capturing the everyday resilience and complexities of modern Muslim women.
From BBC
Another reason is the overall transformation in many Muslim nations, where excesses of radical rule caused widespread revulsion just as a new, more open-minded and globally connected generation grew up.
Born in Brooklyn, Gaines is of Sudanese descent and was raised as a Muslim.
From Salon
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