Translation
Muslim (person)
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from islamo, itself from Arabic islām, 'submission (to God)', plus the membership suffix -an-. The Arabic word for the person is muslim, from the same root; Esperanto declines to borrow it and derives the person from the faith instead.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on an Arabic root
- Root
- islamo + -an-
- English cognates
- Islam, Muslim
Examples
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My neighbour is a Muslim and my friend is a Christian.
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Many Muslims travel to the holy city.
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The congress welcomed Muslims from ten countries.
This word is a derivation before it is a vocabulary item. Islamo is the religion; -an- means a member or inhabitant of; so an is a member of Islam. You do not learn the way you learn Muslim in English, as a separate word to be memorised. You build it, and the same lever builds , budhano, , o, o and samideano.
That is why this page exists at all. Until it did, Landoj kaj Popoloj had to carry as a documented vocabulary exception: the article teaches the -an- suffix scaling from continents down to congregations, and its best example had no page to link to. Now it has one, and the two should be read together.
One note on usage. Islama is the adjective (islama ), the faith, the person. Keep the person and the faith apart in Esperanto even where English blurs them, because the suffix makes the distinction free.
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