Where does “اسلام” come from?

اسلام (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Arabic إِسْلَام, from Arabic أَسْلَمَ, from Arabic ل, from Proto-Semitic *lV-.

Ancestry of “اسلام”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Arabic	إِسْلَام	submission; religious submission to God, Islam;...
2	Arabic	أَسْلَمَ	to surrender, to become a Muslim; he submitted
3	Arabic	ل	to, for, belonging to; لَـ •; Used to express...
4	Proto-Semitic	*lV-	—

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