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Islam

Is′lam

rop.

Noun.

[Ar.

islām

obedience to the will of God, submission, humbling one’s self, resigning one's self to the divine disposal. Cf.

Moslem

The whole body of Muslims, or the countries which they occupy.

Definition 2024

Islam

See also: islam, islám, íslam, İslam, and İslâm

English

Alternative forms

Islaam, Islām

Proper noun

Islam

A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.

Synonyms

Mohammedanism (dated, now often considered offensive)
Moslemism, Muslimism

Hypernyms

religion, monotheism, Abrahamism

Coordinate terms

(religions) religion; animism,‎ Asatru,‎ Bahá'í Faith,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Christianity,‎ Confucianism,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ religious humanism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Judaism,‎ LaVeyanism,‎ Luciferianism,‎ New Age,‎ paganism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ santería,‎ Scientology,‎ shamanism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Spiritism,‎ Taoism,‎ Tengrism,‎ Tenrikyo,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion)} ^[edit]

Related terms

Translations

religion

Afrikaans: Islam
Albanian: Islam
Amharic: እስልምና ‎(ʾəslmna)
Arabic: الْإِسْلَام (ar) m ‎(al-ʾislām), الدِّين m ‎(ad-dīn)
Egyptian Arabic: إسلام m ‎(islam), الإسلام m ‎(el-islam)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܣܠܐܡ
Armenian: իսլամ (hy) ‎(islam), մահմեդականություն (hy) ‎(mahmedakanutʿyun)
Asturian: islam m
Azeri: islam, İslam (az)
Bashkir: ислам ‎(islam)
Basque: Islam, islamismo
Belarusian: ісла́м (be) m ‎(islám), мусульма́нства n ‎(musulʹmánstva)
Bengali: ইসলাম (bn) ‎(islam)
Bulgarian: исля́м (bg) m ‎(isljám)
Burmese: အစ္စလမ် ‎(acca.lam), အစ္စလာမ်ဘာသာ ‎(acca.lambhasa)
Catalan: islam (ca) m, islamisme m
Chechen:
Chinese:

Cantonese: 回教 ‎(wui⁴ gaau³), 伊斯蘭教, 伊斯兰教 ‎(ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ gaau³), 清真教 ‎(cing¹ zan¹ gaau³)

Hakka: 回教 ‎(Fì-kau), 伊斯蘭教, 伊斯兰教 ‎(Yî-sṳ̂-làn-kau)

Mandarin: 回教 (zh) ‎(huíjiào), 伊斯蘭教 (zh), 伊斯兰教 (zh) ‎(yīsīlánjiào), 清真教 ‎(qīngzhēnjiào)

Min Nan: 回教 (zh-min-nan) ‎(Hôe-kàu, Hê-kàu), 伊斯蘭教, 伊斯兰教 ‎(I-su-lân-kàu)
Crimean Tatar: İslâm
Czech: islám (cs) m
Danish: islam (da)
Dhivehi: އިސްލާމް ‎(islām)
Dutch: islam (nl) m
Esperanto: islamo (eo)
Estonian: islam
Finnish: islam (fi)
French: Islam (fr) m
Friulian:
Galician: islam (gl) m, islamismo (gl) m
Georgian: ისლამი ‎(islami)
German: Islam (de) m
Greek: Ισλάμ n ‎(Islám)
Gujarati: ઇસ્લામ ‎(islām)
Hebrew: אסלאם m ‎(islám)
Hindi: इस्लाम (hi) ‎(islām)
Hungarian: iszlám (hu)
Icelandic: íslam
Indonesian: Islam (id)
Irish: Ioslam m
Japanese: イスラム教 (ja) ‎(イスラムきょう, isuramu-kyō), 回教 ‎(かいきょう, kaikyō)
Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಂ ‎(islāṃ)
Kazakh: Исләм ‎(Ïsläm)
Khmer: សាសនាឥស្លាម ‎(saasnaa eslaam), អិស្លាម ‎(ihslaam)

Korean: 이슬람교 (ko) ‎(iseullamgyo), 회교 ‎(hoegyo) (回敎 (ko))
Kurdish:

Kurmanji: Îslam (ku)

Sorani: ئیسلام ‎(îslam)
Kyrgyz: Ислам (ky) ‎(İslam)
Lao: ສາດສະໜາໂມຮຳເມັດ ‎(sāt sa nā mō ham met)
Latvian: islams m
Lithuanian: islamas m
Macedonian: и́слам m ‎(íslam)
Maithili: इसलाम ‎(islām)
Malay: Islam, agama Islam
Malayalam: ഇസ്‌ലാം ‎(is‌lāṃ)
Maltese: Iżlam m
Maori: Mōhāmetatanga
Marathi: इस्लाम ‎(islām)
Mongolian: ислам (mn) ‎(islam)
Nepali: इस्लाम ‎(islām)
Newari: इस्लाम ‎(islām)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: islam (no) m

Nynorsk: islam m
Oriya:
Ossetian: пысылмон дин ‎(pysylmon din)
Pashto: اسلام (ps) m ‎(islām)
Persian: اسلام (fa) ‎(eslâm)
Polish: islam (pl) m
Portuguese: islã (pt) m, islão (pt) m, islame (pt) m
Punjabi:

Gurmukhi: ਇਸਲਾਮ ‎(islām)

Shahmukhi: اسلام (pnb) ‎(islām)
Rajasthani: इस्लांम ‎(islā̃m)
Rohingya:
Romanian: islam (ro)
Russian: исла́м (ru) m ‎(islám), мусульма́нство (ru) n ‎(musulʹmánstvo), магомета́нство (ru) n ‎(magometánstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ислам m

Roman: islam (sh) m
Slovak: islám m
Slovene: islam (sl) m
Spanish: islamismo (es) m, islam (es) m
Swahili: Uislamu
Swedish: islam (sv)
Tajik: Ислом (tg) ‎(Islom)
Tamil: இசுலாம் (ta) ‎(iculām)
Tatar: ислам (tt) ‎(islam), Ислам ‎(İslam)
Telugu: ఇస్లాం మతం ‎(islāṃ mataṃ)
Thai: อิสลาม (th) ‎(ìt-sà-laam), ศาสนาอิสลาม ‎(săa-sà-ná ìt-sà-laam)
Tibetan: དབྱི་སི་ལམ་ཆོས་ལུགས། ‎(dbyi si lam chos lugs)
Turkish: İslam (tr)
Turkmen: Yslam
Ukrainian: ісла́м m ‎(islám), мусульманство n ‎(musulʹmanstvo)
Urdu: اسلام (ur) ‎(islām)
Uyghur: ئىسلام ‎(islam)
Uzbek: islom (uz), Islom
Vietnamese: Hồi giáo (vi), (回教)
Volapük: slam (vo)
Yiddish: איסלאַם m ‎(islam)

Anagrams

alims, mails, salmi

islam

See also: Islam, islám, íslam, İslam, and İslâm

Albanian

Adjective

islam m ‎(feminine islame)

Islamic

Noun

islam m (definite singular islami)

Islam

Declension

declension of islam

	indefinite forms	definite forms
nominative	islam	islami
accusative	islam	islamin
genitive (i/e/të/së)	islami	islamit
dative	islami	islamit
ablative	islami	islamit

Asturian

Noun

islam m ‎(uncountable)

Islam (religion)

Catalan

Noun

islam m ‎(plural islams)

Islam

Danish

Proper noun

islam

Islam

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: is‧lam

Noun

islam m ‎(uncountable)

Islam

Finnish

Noun

islam

the religion of Islam

Declension

Inflection of islam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		islam	—
genitive		islamin	—
partitive		islamia	—
illative		islamiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		islam	—
accusative	nom.	islam	—
accusative	gen.	islamin	—
genitive		islamin	—
partitive		islamia	—
inessive		islamissa	—
elative		islamista	—
illative		islamiin	—
adessive		islamilla	—
ablative		islamilta	—
allative		islamille	—
essive		islamina	—
translative		islamiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		islamitta	—
comitative		—	—