Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a school or college for the education of youth. Also, corruptly, madressah, madrissah, madrissa, medresseh.
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- noun Islam A
school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level. It may have courses inIslamic theology andreligious law , but it is not a requirement.
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- noun Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Etymologies
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Examples
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A linguistic note: while the word madrasah simply means 'school' in Arabic, as a loan word in Indonesian it does seem to refer specifically to Islamic schools.
Fox smears Clinton and Obama in one broad stroke. Ann Althouse 2007
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The Syrian regime has established 300 religious schools I hate it when people in US congress and media now use the word "madrasah", not knowing that it merely means "school."
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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The Syrian regime has established 300 religious schools I hate it when people in US congress and media now use the word "madrasah", not knowing that it merely means "school."
Monday, January 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And explain, as Stop the Madrassa - "madrasah" just means
Democracy Now! Democracy Now! 2010
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SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And explain, as Stop the Madrassa - "madrasah" just means
Democracy Now! Democracy Now! 2010
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Singapore school offers a new model for 'madrasah'
Taipei Times 2009
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Singapore school offers a new model for 'madrasah'
WN.com - Articles related to 'Liquid lunch' could end a weighty problems 2009
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"Abdussabur said of his school, explaining that the term" madrasah "is used to describe" the highest level of education you can get in the Islamic world. "
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Libo's Essa El Hamisi says that Zwara's Salafis have grown to 300-400 from a handful, taking over a mosque and starting a madrasah where students are punished by beatings on the soles of their feet.
Among Libya's Liberals Ann Marlowe 2011
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We spent hours purposely lost in the labyrinth of ancient coral mansions, while eating cheap street food, chants wafting over from a nearby madrasah.
The 'Trip': So Far, So Good for Both of Us Stephen Kreider Yoder 2011
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