madrasah

English

Alternative forms

• madrasa, madrassa, medrese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

Noun

madrasah (plural madrasahs or madaris)

1. (Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; in English, usually refers specifically to a school that teaches Islamic theology.

Translations

school for Islamic theology

• Albanian: medrese (sq) f
• Arabic: مَدْرَسَة (ar) f (madrasa), مَدْرَسَة إِسْلَامِيَّة f (madrasa ʾislāmiyya)
• Armenian: մեդրեսե (hy) (medrese)
• Azerbaijani: mədrəsə (az)
• Bashkir: мәҙрәсә (məźrəsə)
• Belarusian: медрэсэ́ n (mjedresé)
• Bengali: মাদ্রাসা (madraśa)
• Bulgarian: медресе́ n (medresé)
• Catalan: madrassa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯蘭學校／伊斯兰学校 (yīsīlán xuéxiào), 伊斯兰学校 (Yīsīlán xuéxiào)

• Finnish: madrassa (fi)
• French: médersa (fr) f
• Georgian: მედრესე (medrese)
• German: Medresse f; Madrasa f
• Greek: μεντρεσές (el) m (mentresés)
• Hindi: मद्रसा m (madrasā), मदरसा (hi) m (madarsā)
• Hungarian: medresze
• Indonesian: madrasah (id)
• Italian: madrasa f
• Japanese: マドラサ (madorasa)
• Kazakh: медресе (medrese)
• Korean: 마드라사 (madeurasa)
• Kumyk: мадраса (madrasa)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

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• Kyrgyz: медресе (medrese)
• Macedonian: медре́са f (medrésa)
• Malay: madrasah (ms)
• Pashto: مدرسه f (madrasá)
• Persian: مدرسه (fa) (madrese)
• Polish: medresa (pl) f, madrasa (pl) f
• Portuguese: madraçal (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ (madrassā)
• Romanian: medresă f
• Russian: медресе́ (ru) n (medrɛsé, medrɛsɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медреса f

  Roman: medresa (sh) f

• Swahili: madrasa
• Tajik: мадраса (tg) (madrasa)
• Tatar: мәдрәсә (tt) (mädräsä)
• Thai: มาดราซาห์ (maa-draa-saa)
• Turkish: medrese (tr)
• Turkmen: medrese
• Ukrainian: медресе́ (uk) n (medresé)
• Urdu: مدرسہ m (madrasā)
• Uyghur: مەدرىسە (medrise)
• Uzbek: madrasa (uz)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay madrasah, from Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /madˈrasah/
• Hyphenation: mad‧ra‧sah

Noun

madrasah (first-person possessive madrasahku, second-person possessive madrasahmu, third-person possessive madrasahnya)

1. (Islam, education) school.

Usage notes

In Indonesia, sekolah is used by school which is under supervision of Ministry of Education. Islamic school supervised by Ministry of Religious Affairs use madrasah.

Synonyms

• sekolah

Derived terms

• madrasah aliah
• madrasah diniah
• madrasah ibtidaiah
• madrasah sanawiah

 

Further reading

• “madrasah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.