Mussulman
Americannoun
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Mussulmans
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Mussulman
1555–65; < Persian Musulmān (plural) < Arabic Muslimūn, plural of Muslim Muslim
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The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset.
From Time Magazine Archive
To correspondents at Taza, Krim said: "I am under the safe-keeping of France, whose sentiments toward the Mussulman populations I know well."
From Time Magazine Archive
I think I never saw a Mussulman that was afraid to look me in the face.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
They would see that their rule has become well-nigh intolerable, even to the Mussulman population of the Empire.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
The President was moved to say: At Angora, the Grand National Assembly passed a bill providing for the deposition of Abdul Medjid Effendi, Caliph of all the Mussulmans.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.'
From Time Magazine Archive
As for those of the Makkan Mussulmans who take refuge with us, if we give them up, Allah will not abandon them, for He will know how to succour them.'
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Just then, this fort happened to be weakly garrisoned, and the Jewish captive undertook to take the Mussulmans inside by means of a secret itinerary known to him alone.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Already many of the Prophet's old enemies, their hearts still brimming with, rancour, began to gloat over the critical situation of the Mussulmans.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
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