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

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	m
Dari reading?	m
Iranian reading?	m
Tajik reading?	m

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 (musloman)
• → Gujarati: મુસલમાન (musalmān)
• → Old Hindi: मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: मुसलमान (musalmān)

    Urdu: مُسَلْمَان (musalmān)

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

  Devanagari script: मुसलमान (musalᵊmān)

  Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒳𑒮𑒪𑒧𑒰𑒢 (musalamāna)

• → Marathi: मुसलमान (musalmān)
• → Mongolian: мусульман (musulʹman)
• → Odia: ମୁସଲମାନ (musalamāna)
• → 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 script: ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān)

    Shahmukhi script: مُسَلمان‎ (musalmān‎)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: مُسلْمان

  Devanagari script: मुसलमान

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

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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 (musloman). First attested as Old Hindi मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

1. (Islam) Muslim

Further reading

• “مسلمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مسلمان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• 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.