Etymology

From Arabic مُسْلِم ‎(muslim, “one who submits”), the active participle of أَسْلَمَ ‎(ʾaslama, “he submitted”), verb form IV from the triliteral root س ل م ‎(s-l-m), "to be whole, intact". The verbal noun إسْلام ‎(ʾislām) means literally "submission". In a religious sense, الْإِسْلَام ‎(al-ʾislām) translates to "faith, piety", and مُسْلِم ‎(muslim) to "one who has (religious) faith or piety".