Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُسْلِمٌ

Root: سلم

Full Definition

مُسْلِمٌ act. part. n. of 4 [q. v.]. وَٱجْعَلْنَا مُسْلِمِينَ لَكَ, in the Kur ii. 122, means And make both of us self-resigned, or submissive, to Thee: or, sincere in religion, or without hypocrisy, towards Thee; syn. مُخْلِصَيْنِ: and therefore مسلمين is made trans. by means of ل.
2 [It commonly means One who holds, or professes, the religion of الإِسْلَام.] And one says, كَأَنَ كَافِرًا ثُمَّ هُوَاليَوْمَ [He was an unbeliever: then, to day, he has become a Muslim].


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