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Meaning of MOSLEM

Pronunciation:  'mâzlum

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a believer or follower of Islam
  2. [adj]  of or relating to or supporting Islamism; "Islamic art"
 
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 Synonyms: Islamic, Mohammedan, Muhammadan, Muhammedan, Muslim, Muslim
 
 See Also: begum, Berber, calif, caliph, fakeer, fakir, faqir, faquir, Fatima, Fatimah, imam, imaum, Islam, Islamism, kalif, kaliph, khalif, Mohammadanism, Mohammedanism, Mollah, Moor, Mulla, Mullah, Muslimism, religionist, religious person, Saracen, Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Sunni, Sunnite

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Mos"lem\, n.; pl. {Moslems}, or collectively {Moslem}.
    [Ar. muslim a true believer in the Mohammedan faith, fr.
    salama to submit to God, to resign one's self to the divine
    will. Cf. {Islam}, {Mussulman}.]
    A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also {muslim}.]
    ``Heaps of slaughtered Moslem.'' --Macaulay.
          They piled the ground with Moslem slain. --Halleck.
    
  2. \Mos"lem\, a.
    Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem
    lands; the Moslem faith.
    
 

 

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