madrasah

English

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة‎ f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ‎ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

madrasah (plural madrasahs or madaris)

(Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; in English, usually refers specifically to a school that teaches Islamic theology.

school for Islamic theology

Albanian: medrese (sq) f
Arabic: مَدْرَسَة‎‎ (ar) f (madrasa), مَدْرَسَة إِسْلَامِيَّة‎‎ f (madrasa ʾislāmiyya)
Armenian: մեդրեսե (hy) (medrese)
Azerbaijani: mədrəsə (az)
Bashkir: мәҙрәсә (mäðräsä)
Belarusian: медрэсэ́ n (mjedresé)
Bengali: মাদ্রাসা (madraśa)
Bulgarian: медресе́ n (medresé)
Catalan: madrassa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伊斯蘭學校, 伊斯兰学校 (Yīsīlán xuéxiào)
Finnish: madrassa (fi)
French: médersa (fr) f
Georgian: მედრესე (medrese)
German: Medresse f; Madrasa f
Greek: μεντρεσές (el) m (mentresés)
Hindi: मद्रसा m (madrasā)
Hungarian: medresze
Indonesian: madrasah (id)
Italian: madrasa f
Japanese: マドラサ (madorasa)
Kazakh: медресе (medrese)
Korean: 마드라사 (madeurasa)
Kumyk: мадраса (madrasa)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: medrese (ku) f

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