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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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
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
Few of them narrate events previous to the invasion of Europe by the Turks in 1355, but some refer to facts coeval with the Mussulman empire in Adrianople.
From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring
But strangers to these localities are liable to the disease, and such are the Mussulman pilgrims who come to Bombay to take ship for Mecca.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
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
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
In the month of Zu'l-Qa'dah, the Apostle, ever mindful of the religious and political importance of the pilgrimage to Makkah, sent Abu Bakr to accomplish it at the head of three hundred Mussulmans.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
It is easy to write this Hindostani, for it has an opulent vocabulary of tadbhava words understood everywhere by both Mussulmans and Hindus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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