Etymograph

English

Muslim

Muslim comes from Arabic مُسْلِم ‘one who submits’, and goes back to أَسْلَمَ.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentأَسْلَمَʔaslama‘he submitted’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُسْلِمmuslim‘one who submits’active participle of أَسْلَمَ
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1626Muslim

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentأَسْلَمَʔaslama‘he submitted’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمُسْلِمmuslim‘one who submits’active participle of أَسْلَمَ
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1626Muslim

Earliest quotation: 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage: “It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus…”

The story

The verbal noun إسْلام (ʔislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام (al-ʔislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم (muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".

Every English word from Arabic أَسْلَمَ

Today it means

noun An adherent of Islam.

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

Etymograph / Arabic أَسْلَمَ / Muslim

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