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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Muslim.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Mohammedan, or follower of Mohammed; a true believer, in the Mohammedan sense; a Moslem.
  • Of or pertaining to Moslems, or to their faith or customs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Mohammedan; a Moslem.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic a Muslim

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Turkish musulmān, probably alteration of Arabic muslim, Muslim; see Muslim.]

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From Turkish musulman ("Muslim"), from Persian مسلمان (musalmân, "Muslim"), from Arabic مسلم (muslim, "Muslim").

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