Crossword clues for bismillah
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bismillah \Bis*mil"lah\, interj. [Arabic, in the name of God!] An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
first attested in English in Byron, from Arabic bi'smillah(i) "in the name of God" (Allah).
Wikipedia
Bismillah ( "In the name of God" or "In the name of Allah") is the first word in the Quran and the incipit (the shortened form) of the basmala, a name for the Quran's opening phrase in Arabic,'' bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm'' ("In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the most Merciful").
Further
- Bismillah ceremony, a ceremony held for a child's initiation into Islam
- Bismillah Airlines, Bangladesh
- Bismillah Chowk, neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan
- Bismullah v. Gates, United States Court of Appeal case, on behalf of Bismullah, Guantanamo detainee 968, an Afghan
Usage examples of "bismillah".
Thou hast let me fall into a trap, and now dost quiver and quake and shiver and shake like a tub of whey on the back of a restive camel: my kingdom is reduced from twelve provinces to twelve square cubits: my subjects from thirty millions unto three, but Bismillah!
ISHAK Ah, bismillah, I had not forgotten you, O man with the broken lute.
Not less than ten and not more than twenty minutes later, Mustapha and Bismillah will die.
On the night when she told Bismillah Khan, the most promising fire‑eater in the colony, to go somewhere else with his breath of hot chillies, even Picture Singh despaired.