Where does “islam” come from?
islam (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Arabic إِسْلَام, from Arabic أَسْلَمَ, from Arabic ل, from Proto-Semitic *lV-.
islam (Serbo-Croatian): Islam
Ancestry of “islam”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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- | — |