English
Mu'tazili
Mu'tazili comes from Arabic مُعْتَزِلِيّ ‘Mu'tazili, Mu'tazilite’, and goes back to اِعْتَزَلَ ‘to isolate oneself from’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentاِعْتَزَلَiʕtazala‘to isolate oneself from’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُعْتَزِلَةmuʕtazila‘the Mu'tazila’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُعْتَزِلِيّmuʕtaziliyy‘Mu'tazili, Mu'tazilite’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002Mu'tazili
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Arabicc. 500–presentاِعْتَزَلَiʕtazala‘to isolate oneself from’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُعْتَزِلَةmuʕtazila‘the Mu'tazila’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُعْتَزِلِيّmuʕtaziliyy‘Mu'tazili, Mu'tazilite’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002Mu'tazili
Earliest quotation: 2002, Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies: “They rejected the Mu'tazili notion of the createdness of…”
Every English word from Arabic اِعْتَزَلَ
Today it means
adj Of or relating to the Mu'tazila.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic اِعْتَزَلَ / Mu'tazili