Moslem or Muslim? (1 Viewer)

[joluoto]

From what i know, the two are just differnt kinds of Arabic

It's more that Arabic doesn't have vowels.

 

[tosca1]

i say Moslem

Out of curiousity - Why?

 

[Rumpel]

Out of curiousity - Why?

tradition

 

[Rumpel]

It's more that Arabic doesn't have vowels.

ok

 

[Juin]

i say Moslem

Moslem here as well

 

[Juin]

The truly ignorant say Mohammadan.

I say Mahometan

 

[Juin]

I can't remember if I have ever come across that one. Never stop learning.

Mussulman = Turkish and Persian modification of Muslim.


I looked the wrong word up at first. Muselmann = German term widely used by concentration camp prisoners to refer to inmates who were on the verge of death from starvation, exhaustion, and despair.

I assumed I was waaaay off.

In French it is still Musulman [male], Musulmane [female]

 

[Juin]

ok

I am not sure how Arabic has no vowels. Doest that aggressive phrase "Allah Akbar" start with a vowel?

 

[stevecanuck]

I am not sure how Arabic has no vowels. Doest that aggressive phrase "Allah Akbar" start with a vowel?

Yes it has vowels.

 

[tosca1]

which term do you prefer?

Though I've read "Moslem" in some reading materials (perhaps from fiction novels)...................I just thought it was an "old" way of saying it.

 

[Rumpel]

Though I've read "Moslem" in some reading materials (perhaps from fiction novels)...................I just thought it was an "old" way of saying it.

old maybe …. but not wrong

 

[Rumpel]

I am not sure how Arabic has no vowels. Doest that aggressive phrase "Allah Akbar" start with a vowel?

some mean …. there are no letters for those vowels

but there are ..

 

[Juin]

old maybe …. but not wrong

It was "Moslem". Then the woke folks came and told us "Moslem" don't sit right with followers of Mahomet. That it is not up to us how we wanna call it, or pronounce it; we must shift gears from "o" to "u".

 

[Rumpel]

It was "Moslem". Then the woke folks came and told us "Moslem" don't sit right with followers of Mahomet. That it is not up to us how we wanna call it, or pronounce it; we must shift gears from "o" to "u".

it should be up to us!

just as Dutschland is Germany in English!

do we Germans complain?

No!

 

[Rumpel]

Deutschland …

 

[tosca1]

old maybe …. but not wrong

I never thought of it in terms of right or wrong way of pronouncing it.
Either one is fine with me.