Meaning, origin and history of the name Muslim

Gender Masculine

Scripts مسلم (Arabic, Urdu)

Pronounced Pron. /ˈmus.lim/ (Arabic) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Name for a follower of Islam, ultimately from Arabic أسْلم (ʾaslama) meaning "to surrender, to submit" [1] .

Feminine FormMuslima (Arabic)

Other Languages & CulturesMüslüm (Azerbaijani) Müslım (Kazakh) Moslem (Persian) Müslüm (Turkish)

Same SpellingMüslım

Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Spoken Language Services, 1979, page 495.