Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A believer in or adherent of Islam.
- n. A member of the Nation of Islam; a Black Muslim.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as Moslem.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to believers of Islam.
- n. A person who is a follower and believer of the Islamic faith.
GNU Webster's 1913
- See Moslem.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or supporting Islamism
- n. a believer in or follower of Islam
Etymologies
- Arabic muslim, one who surrenders, active participle of 'aslama, to surrender; see Islam. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“MAJED MOUGHNI, MUSLIM ACTIVIST: And now we get this other terrorist that attempts to blow an airliner right over our heads, right over the heads largest Muslim population outside the Middle East, right over our heads.”
“And depending on muslim women's fertility rates (recently bouncing between 3. something and four per woman) AND taking into account the fact that hard figures on the actual makeup of the Muslim communities is difficult to assertain it's rather easy to see how the Muslims could scrape into majority status in France in Fifty years.”
“What does Russia do in the next decade, when it's predicted that over 40% of their conscripts will be avowed muslim youth, if they ever find it needfull to stand against another Muslim state?”
“The muslim population of the world have unity and collective voice ... an Iranian muslim considers a Gazan a brother just as a French Muslim would consider an Afghani Muslim a brother also.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“MAJED MOUGHNI, MUSLIM ACTIVIST:: And now, we get this other terrorist that attempts to blow an airliner right over our heads, right over the heads of the largest Muslim population outside of the middle east, right over our heads, and we are going to sit and watch?”
“ISMAIL YUSANTO, LEADER OF MUSLIM ORGANIZATION: We do not want anything from Obama except the realization of what he said -- mutual respect, mutual understanding and mutual interest between USA and Muslim world.”
“Those of you who have been paying any sort of attention (as opposed to knee-jerkingly jumping to Obama's defence without question) will know that to have a muslim father is to be deemed a Muslim in the Islamic tradition.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“MUKIT HOSSAIN, MUSLIM AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE: Well, certainly one of the problems that we've been facing is that the Barack Obama campaign seems to be keeping its distance from the Muslim community.”
“TAREK FATAH, MUSLIM CANADIAN CONGRESS: This is a wake-up call for the Muslim community and it is a wake-up call for all who repeat five times a day that any woman whose head is not covered is a sexual object.”
“MOHAMMED MAMDANI, MUSLIM YOUTH HELPLINE: Many young Muslims feel they're leading double lives because they have to behave a particular way within the Muslim community.”
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