madrasah
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of madrasah
From Arabic
Example Sentences
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Listening to these kids talk, an American might be tempted to think they attended some Middle Eastern madrasah or had been reading Noam Chomsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Click on the claim that Obama attended a "radical madrasah," for instance, and it takes you to a CNN feature on the very ordinary-looking elementary school he actually went to as a child in Indonesia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within a few years, the Markaz had expanded to include a madrasah, separate schools for boys and girls, a free hospital and a university.
From Time Magazine Archive
A month after the Cole bombing, Walker left Yemen for Bannu, a village in Pakistan's northwest, to attend an Islamic school, or madrasah.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a wisdom far in advance of his time, he planned to educate the followers of Shi'aism by the introduction of madrasah mosques and colleges.
From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes
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