bismillah
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English[edit]
Interjection[edit]
bismillah
- Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
- 2013 September 20, Peter Hessler, “Keeping The Faith”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.
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Etymology[edit]
From Arabic بِسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: bis‧mil‧lah
Noun[edit]
bismillah (definite accusative bismillahı, uncountable)
- (Islam) Bismillah
- (figurative) the beginning of something
- 2023 March 20, “Bilim bizi kurtarabilir mi?” (1:32:58 from the start), in Teke Tek Bilim[2]:
- Bu, [Steno'nun kitabı] jeolojinin bismillahı.
- This [a book by Nicolas Steno] is the beginning of geology.
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References[edit]
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bismillah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- bismillah in Turkish dictionaries at Dil Derneği.
- “bismillah”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu