مسلمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian مسلمان‎ (musalmân), from Arabic مُسْلِم‎ (muslim).

Noun

مسلمان • (müsliman)

1. Muslim

Descendants

• Turkish: Müslüman
• → Albanian: mysliman
• → Crimean Tatar: musulman
• → Italian: musulmano
  • → German: Muselman
    • → Estonian: musulman
    • → Swedish: muselman
  • → French: musulman
  • → Galician: musulmán
  • → English: Mussulman
  • → Maltese: musulman
  • → Portuguese: muçulmano
  • → Romanian: musulman
  • → Spanish: musulmán
• → Bulgarian: мюсюлма́нин (mjusjulmánin)
• → Greek: μουσουλμάνος (mousoulmános)
• → Macedonian: муслиман (musliman)
• → Serbo-Croatian: муслѝма̄н / muslìmān
• → Slovene: muslimȃn

---

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مُسْلِم‎ (muslim).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /musalmɑːn/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /mʊsalmɒːn/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /mosælmɒːn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /musalmɔːn/

Noun

مسلمان • (mosalmân) (plural مسلمانان‎ (mosalmânân) or مسلمین‎ (moslemin) or مسلمان‌ها‎ (mosalmân-hâ))

1. Muslim

Inflection

Basic forms of مسلمان (mosalmân)
	singular	plural
bare	مسلمان (mosalmân)	مسلمانان (mosalmânấn) مسلمانا △ (mosalmânấ)
definitive direct object	مسلمان را (mosalmân râ) مسلمان رو △ (mosalmâno)	مسلمانان را (mosalmânấn râ) مسلمانا رو △ (mosalmânấ ro)
ezâfe	مسلمان (mosalmân-e)	مسلمانان (mosalmânấn-e) مسلمانای △ (mosalmânấ-ye)
marked indefinite or relative definite	مسلمانی (mosalmân-i)	مسلمانانی (mosalmânấn-i) مسلمانایی △ (mosalmânấi)
△ Colloquial.

Predicative forms of مسلمان (mosalmân)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	مسلمانم‎ (mosalmânam)	مسلمانیم‎ (mosalmânim)
2nd person (“you are”)	مسلمانی‎ (mosalmâni)	مسلمانید‎ (mosalmânid) مسلمانین‎ △ (mosalmânin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	مسلمان است‎ (mosalmân ast) مسلمانه‎ △ (mosalmâne)	مسلمانند‎ (mosalmânand) مسلمانن‎ △ (mosalmânan)
△ Colloquial.

Related terms

• مسلمانی‎ (mosalmâni)
• اسلام‎ (eslâm)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: müsəlman
• → Bashkir: мосолман (mosolman)
• → Bengali: মুসলমান (muśôlman)
• → Gujarati: મુસલમાન (musalmān)
• → Old Hindi: मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na)
  • Hindustani: musalmān

    Hindi: मुसलमान

    Urdu: مُسَلْمَان‎

• → Kazakh: мұсылман (mūsylman)
• → Kyrgyz: мусулман (musulman)
• → Lak: бусурман (busurman)
• → Maithili:

  Devanagari: मुसलमान (musalᵊmān)

  Tirhuta: 𑒧𑒳𑒮𑒪𑒧𑒰𑒢 (musalamāna)

• → Marathi: मुसलमान (musalmān)
• → Mongolian: мусульман (musulʹman)
• → Oriya: ମୁସଲମାନ (musôlômanô)
• → Tatar: мөселман (möselman)
  • → Belarusian: мусульма́нін (musulʹmánin)
  • → Russian: мусульма́нин (musulʹmánin)
  • → Ukrainian: мусульма́нин (musulʹmányn)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مسلمان‎
  • Turkish: Müslüman
  • → Albanian: mysliman
  • → Crimean Tatar: musulman
  • → Italian: musulmano
    • → German: Muselman
      • → Estonian: musulman
      • → Swedish: muselman
    • → French: musulman
    • → Galician: musulmán
    • → English: Mussulman
    • → Maltese: musulman
    • → Portuguese: muçulmano
    • → Romanian: musulman
    • → Spanish: musulmán
  • → Bulgarian: мюсюлма́нин (mjusjulmánin)
  • → Greek: μουσουλμάνος (mousoulmános)
  • → Macedonian: муслиман (musliman)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: муслѝма̄н / muslìmān
  • → Slovene: muslimȃn
• → Old Punjabi: ਮੁਸਲਮਾਣੁ (musalamāṇu), ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨੁ (musalamānu)
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi: ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān)

    Shahmukhi: مُسَلمان‎‎ (musalmān‎)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic: مُسلْمان‎

  Devanagari: मुसलमान

• → Uyghur: مۇسۇلمان‎ (musulman)
• → Uzbek: musulmon

---

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مسلمان‎ (musalmân), from Arabic مُسْلِم‎ (muslim). Compare Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān) / مُسَلمان‎ (musalmān), Gujarati મુસલમાન (musalmān), Marathi मुसलमान (musalmān), Bengali মুসলমান (muśôlman). First attested as Old Hindi मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.səl.mɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: مُ‧سَل‧مان

Noun

مُسَلمان • (musalmān) m (Hindi spelling मुसलमान)

1. (Islam) Muslim

Further reading

• “مسلمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مسلمان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “مسلمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “مسلمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.