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Muslimize
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English
Alternative forms
en Muslimise UK
en Moslemize, en Moslemise obsolete
Etymology
en :af Muslim -ize + 1
Verb
en transitive To make Muslim; to increase the Muslim character of.
en 1845 w:Elliot Warburton The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel 1 310 These captives are all christians when caught, but are immediately Moslemised.
en 1890 J. Scott Keltie What Stanley Has Done for the Map of Africa Science 15 364 51 In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.
en 1964 Hugh H. Smythe Thailand Minority Groups Phylon 25 3 282 As for the Muslimized Malays, they live mainly in the sourthernmost changwads (provinces) that border on Malaysia, although there are small communities of them in and near Bangkok.
Synonyms
en Muslimify rare, nonstandard
Derived terms
en de-Muslimize
en un-Muslimize
Translations
to convert to Islam
Esperanto: eo islamanigi
French: Musulmaniser, faire Musulman
Italian: it musulmanizare
Spanish: es musulmanizar
en Islam