مسلمان
Ottoman Turkish
Persian
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim), probably a corrupted borrowing of the Arabic plural مُسْلِمُون (muslimūn).
This is one of a number of very early oral borrowings from Arabic, dating to the earliest years of Islamic rule, that underwent irregular phonetic shifts. Others include میر (mir, “prince”) from أَمِير (ʔamīr) and now archaic Classical Persian مزگت (mazgit, “mosque”) from مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /musalˈmɑːn/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /mʊsalˈmɑːn/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /mosælˈmɒːn/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /musalˈmɔn/
Noun
| Dari | مسلمان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | мусалмон (musalmon) |
مسلمان • (mosalmân) (plural مسلمانان (mosalmânân) or مسلمین (moslemin) or مسلمان‌ها (mosalmân-hâ))
Inflection
| Basic forms of مسلمان (mosalmân) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| bare | مسلمان (mosalmân) |
مسلمانان (mosalmânấn) مسلمانا △ (mosalmânấ) |
| definitive direct object | مسلمان را (mosalmân râ) مسلمان رو △ (mosalmâno) |
مسلمانان را (mosalmânấn râ) مسلمانا رو △ (mosalmânấ ro) |
| ezâfe | مسلمان (mosalmân-e) |
مسلمانان (mosalmânấn-e) مسلمانای △ (mosalmânấ-ye) |
| marked indefinite or relative definite |
مسلمانی (mosalmân-i) |
مسلمانانی (mosalmânấn-i) مسلمانایی △ (mosalmânấi) |
| △ Colloquial. | ||
| Predicative forms of مسلمان (mosalmân) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| 1st person (“I am, we are”) |
مسلمانم (mosalmânam) |
مسلمانیم (mosalmânim) |
| 2nd person (“you are”) |
مسلمانی (mosalmâni) |
مسلمانید (mosalmânid) مسلمانین △ (mosalmânin) |
| 3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”) |
مسلمان است (mosalmân ast) مسلمانه △ (mosalmâne) |
مسلمانند (mosalmânand) مسلمانن △ (mosalmânan) |
| △ Colloquial. | ||
Related terms
- مسلمانی (mosalmâni)
- اسلام (eslâm)
Descendants
- → Avar: бусурманчи (busurmanči)
- → Azerbaijani: müsəlman
- → Bashkir: мосолман (mosolman)
- → Bengali: মুসলমান (musloman)
- → Dargwa: бусурман (busurman)
- → Gujarati: મુસલમાન (musalmān)
- → Old Hindi: मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na)
- Hindustani: musalmān
- Hindi: मुसलमान
- Urdu: مُسَلْمَان
- Hindustani: musalmān
- → Kazakh: мұсылман (mūsylman)
- → Kumyk: бусурман (busurman)
- → Kyrgyz: мусулман (musulman)
- → Lak: бусурман (busurman)
- → Maithili:
- Devanagari script: मुसलमान (musalᵊmān)
- Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒳𑒮𑒪𑒧𑒰𑒢 (musalamāna)
- → Marathi: मुसलमान (musalmān)
- → Mongolian: мусульман (musulʹman)
- → Oriya: ମୁସଲମାନ (musôlômanô)
- → Tatar: мөселман (möselman)
- → Belarusian: мусульма́нін (musulʹmánin)
- → Russian: мусульма́нин (musulʹmánin)
- → Ukrainian: мусульма́нин (musulʹmányn)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مسلمان
- → Old Punjabi: ਮੁਸਲਮਾਣੁ (musalamāṇu), ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨੁ (musalamānu)
- → Sindhi:
- → Uyghur: مۇسۇلمان (musulman)
- → Uzbek: musulmon
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian مسلمان (mosalmân), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim). Compare Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān) / مُسَلمان (musalmān), Gujarati મુસલમાન (musalmān), Marathi मुसलमान (musalmān), Bengali মুসলমান (musloman). First attested as Old Hindi मुसलमांन (musalamā̃na).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mʊ.səl.mɑːn/
- (Deccani) IPA(key): /mʊ.səl.mɑːn/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: مُ‧سَل‧مان
Further reading
- “مسلمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “مسلمان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “مسلمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “مسلمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.