English

Islamofascist

From Islamo- + fascist.

A compound of Islam + Islamo- + fascist

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 fascista ‘fascist’

English fascist

Today it means

noun A Muslim fundamentalist.

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

Etymograph / Islamofascist