Etymograph

English

Islamofascism

From Islamo- + fascism.

A compound of Islam + Islamo- + fascism

Arabic أَسْلَمَ

Arabic إِسْلَام ‘religious submission to God, piety’

English Islam

Proto-Indo-European *bʰaskyo- ‘bundle’

Latin fascis ‘a faggot, fascine’

Italian fascio ‘bundle (of wood)’

Italian fascismo ‘fascism’

English fascism

Today it means

noun Socially repressive or nationalistic Islamic fundamentalism.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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