bismillah

bismillah

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
   • 2013 September 20, Peter Hessler, “Keeping The Faith”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.

• basmala

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بسم الله, from Arabic بِسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh).

• (noun): IPA^(key): /bis.milˈlah/, (definite accusative) /bis.mil.laːˈhɯ/
• (interjection): IPA^(key): /ˈbis.mil.lah/
• Hyphenation: bis‧mil‧lah

bismillah (definite accusative bismillahı, uncountable)

1. (Islam) Bismillah

   Synonym: besmele

2. (figurative) the beginning of something

   Synonym: başlangıç

   • 2023 March 20, “Bilim bizi kurtarabilir mi?” (1:32:58 from the start), in Teke Tek Bilim‎^[2]:

     Bu, [Steno'nun kitabı] jeolojinin bismillahı.

     This [a book by Nicolas Steno] is the beginning of geology.

• “bismillah”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bismillah”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bismillah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• bismillah in Turkish dictionaries at Dil Derneği.
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “bismillah”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı