Muslimize

English

Alternative forms

• Muslimise (UK)
• Moslemize, Moslemise (obsolete)

Etymology

Muslim +‎ -ize

Verb

Muslimize (third-person singular simple present Muslimizes, present participle Muslimizing, simple past and past participle Muslimized)

1. (transitive) To make Muslim; to increase the Muslim character of.
   • 1845, Elliot Warburton, The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, volume 1, page 310:

     These captives are all christians when caught, but are immediately Moslemised.

   • 1890, J. Scott Keltie, “What Stanley Has Done for the Map of Africa”, in Science, volume 15, number 364, page 51:

     In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.

   • 1964, Hugh H. Smythe, “Thailand Minority Groups”, in Phylon, volume 25, number 3, page 282:

     As for the Muslimized Malays, they live mainly in the sourthernmost changwads (provinces) that border on Malaysia, although there are small communities of them in and near Bangkok.

Synonyms

• Muslimify (rare, nonstandard)

Derived terms

• de-Muslimize
• un-Muslimize

Translations

to convert to Islam

• Esperanto: islamanigi
• French: Musulmaniser, faire Musulman
• Italian: musulmanizare
• Spanish: musulmanizar