Muslim
Americannoun
adjective
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Derived Forms
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Muslimismnoun
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anti-Muslimadjective
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half-Muslimadjective
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non-Muslimadjective
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pre-Muslimadjective
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pro-Muslimadjective
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pseudo-Muslimadjective
Inflected Forms
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Etymology
Origin of Muslim
< Arabic, literally, a person who submits. See Islam
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Abdullahi, drawing simultaneously from Ethiopian history, Muslim traditions and her own contemporary experience.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
“It was to also honor the Muslim women in my background. My mother, grandmother, aunties and cousins all covered and did so joyfully. That was never an issue for them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ms. Berg acknowledges that much of the museum’s outreach to Berlin’s Muslim communities was discontinued after Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In 2018, Bibars Natcho became the first Muslim to captain the team.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The only Black girl, the only Muslim girl, the only hijabi.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
This stems from a contemporary desire in Sweden and Norway to create a counterweight to the nationalistic use of the Viking Age that is often directed against Muslims.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
They include a disproportionately high number of Pakistan's minority Christians and Ahmadis in particular, but many majority Sunni Muslims too.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Americans also deserve credit for their failure to blame Muslims or Arabs en masse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Muslims are embroiled in yet another war, but this one isn’t in the Middle East, Southeast Asia or another predominantly Islamic region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Qur’an asked Muslims to worship five times daily: once between first light and dawn; again after midday; at mid-afternoon; at sunset; and lastly an hour and a half after sunset.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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