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
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shurahbil had therefore mustered an army of nearly a hundred thousand men before the Mussulman forces arrived at Mu'an.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
The Spanish Christians were never molested on account of their belief during the eight centuries of Mussulman domination.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
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
As for Abu Sufyan, ever since he had been warned that the Mussulmans were on the march, he was constantly on the look-out.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
The Islamic Review," from which we take the following significant passage: "Why have Englishmen and other Europeans become Mussulmans?
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
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
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