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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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This word is part of lesson 36.