Translation
Islam
Word origin
From Arabic islām, a verbal noun meaning submission or surrender to God. It sits on the triliteral root s-l-m, which also gives salām ('peace') and muslim ('one who submits').
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- إسلام (islām)
- English cognates
- Islam, Muslim, salaam
Examples
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Islam is one of the world's great religions.
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He studies the history and the art of Islam.
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Many peoples follow Islam.
The follower is , built with -an-, the suffix for a member of a group or an inhabitant of a place. That is the same machine that gives , and o, and it means Esperanto needs no separate loanword for Muslim. The adjective is islama, and a mosque is a . The -an- suffix and the wider system for naming peoples are set out in Landoj kaj popoloj.
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