madrasah

American  

[muh-dras-uh] / məˈdræs ə /

Or madrasa,

noun

Islam.

1. a school or college, especially a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.

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madrasah British  

/ məˈdrɛseɪ, ˈmɑːdræsə, məˈdræsə /

noun

1. Islam an educational institution, particularly for Islamic religious instruction

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Etymology

Origin of madrasah

From Arabic

Example Sentences

They still do in the Pakistani madrasah, or religious school, where he teaches today.

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

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

The mostly silent, nameless gentleman sitting across from us piped up: "There has never been an extremist graduate from this madrasah, and there never will be."

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