Where does “इस्लाम” come from?
इस्लाम (Marathi) comes from Classical Persian اِسْلَام, from Arabic إِسْلَام, from Arabic أَسْلَمَ, from Arabic ل, from Proto-Semitic *lV-.
इस्लाम (Marathi): Islam
Ancestry of “इस्लाम”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Classical Persian | اِسْلَام | — |
| 2 | Arabic | إِسْلَام | submission; religious submission to God, Islam;... |
| 3 | Arabic | أَسْلَمَ | to surrender, to become a Muslim; he submitted |
| 4 | Arabic | ل | to, for, belonging to; لَـ •; Used to express... |
| 5 | Proto-Semitic | *lV- | — |