Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India, a school or college for the education of youth. Also, corruptly, madressah, madrissah, madrissa, medresseh.

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  • noun Islam A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level. It may have courses in Islamic theology and religious law, but it is not a requirement.

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  • noun Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan

Etymologies

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From Arabic مدرسة (madrasa) f. "school".

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Examples

  • A linguistic note: while the word madrasah simply means 'school' in Arabic, as a loan word in Indonesian it does seem to refer specifically to Islamic schools.

    Fox smears Clinton and Obama in one broad stroke. Ann Althouse 2007

  • The Syrian regime has established 300 religious schools I hate it when people in US congress and media now use the word "madrasah", not knowing that it merely means "school."

    Tuesday, January 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • The Syrian regime has established 300 religious schools I hate it when people in US congress and media now use the word "madrasah", not knowing that it merely means "school."

    Monday, January 30, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And explain, as Stop the Madrassa - "madrasah" just means

    Democracy Now! Democracy Now! 2010

  • SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And explain, as Stop the Madrassa - "madrasah" just means

    Democracy Now! Democracy Now! 2010

  • Singapore school offers a new model for 'madrasah'

    Taipei Times 2009

  • Singapore school offers a new model for 'madrasah'

    WN.com - Articles related to  'Liquid lunch' could end a weighty problems 2009

  • "Abdussabur said of his school, explaining that the term" madrasah "is used to describe" the highest level of education you can get in the Islamic world. "

    New Haven Independent 2009

  • Libo's Essa El Hamisi says that Zwara's Salafis have grown to 300-400 from a handful, taking over a mosque and starting a madrasah where students are punished by beatings on the soles of their feet.

    Among Libya's Liberals Ann Marlowe 2011

  • We spent hours purposely lost in the labyrinth of ancient coral mansions, while eating cheap street food, chants wafting over from a nearby madrasah.

    The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us Stephen Kreider Yoder 2011

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