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MUSLIM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A believer in or follower of Islam

Synonyms:

Moslem; Muslim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Muslim" is a kind of...):

religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Muslim"):

Wahabi; Wahhabi (a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam)

Sufi (a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam; a Muslim who seeks direct experience of Allah; mainly in Iran)

Saracen ((historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades)

Muslimah (a Muslim woman)

Mollah; Mulla; Mullah (a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque)

mujtihad (an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts)

mujahid (a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad)

imam; imaum ((Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide)

hakim (a Muslim ruler or governor or judge)

hakeem; hakim (a Muslim physician)

fakeer; fakir; faqir; faquir (a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man)

calif; caliph; kalif; kaliph; khalif; khalifah (the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth)

begum (a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan)

assassin (a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders)

Moor (one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century)

Sunni; Sunni Muslim; Sunnite (a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad)

Shi'ite; Shi'ite Muslim; Shia Muslim; Shiite; Shiite Muslim (a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs)

Jihadist (a Muslim who is involved in a jihad)

Islamist (an orthodox Muslim)

Instance hyponyms:

Fatima; Fatimah (youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632))

Holonyms ("Muslim" is a member of...):

Islam; Muslimism (the civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion)

Derivation:

Muslim (of or relating to or supporting Islamism)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or supporting Islamism

Example:

Islamic art

Synonyms:

Islamic; Moslem; Muslim

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Islamism (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran)

Derivation:

Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)

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