Word origins

• minhibbakjiIn the Arab World, a loyalist
• MintakaA multiple star in the constellation of Orion; Delta (δ) Orionis, one of the three stars that form Orion's Belt.
• mintaqahA first-level country subdivision used in Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries.
• mirachThe abdominal wall.
• MirfakAlpha Persei, a yellow supergiant star in the constellation of Perseus.
• MirzamSynonym of Beta Canis Majoris.
• misbahaA set of Islamic prayer beads.
• miskeenPoor, pathetic, innocent; (by extension) not affiliated with criminal gangs.
• MisrataA port city on the Mediterranean, in northwestern Libya.
• miswakA chewstick used particularly by Muslims for cleaning the teeth, made from twigs of trees of species Salvadora persica.
• misyarA temporary marriage (wedlease), especially in Sunni Islam.
• mithqalA unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
• mizmarA traditional Arabic wind instrument with a double or single reed.
• mohurrerA clerk or writer in a native language.
• monitor lizardAny of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.
• MonufiaA governorate in north-eastern Egypt.
• moon letterOne of fourteen Arabic letters that do not affect the pronunciation of the "L" of a preceding definite article (ال- (al--)). The "L" in the Arabic definite article is pronounced "L" when followed by a moon letter: e.g., القُرْآن (al-qurʔān). The fourteen moon letters are: ء (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), ح (ḥ), خ (ḵ), ع (ʕ), غ (ḡ), ف (f), ق (q), ك (k), م (m), ه (h), و (w), ي (y)
• MorcosA surname from Arabic.
• MoslawiA citizen or resident of Mosul.
• mother of allUsed before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of (its kind); the most epic example of (its kind).
• mubahAllowed; permitted.
• mudarabahA partnership or trust financing contract where one partner gives money to another for investing in a commercial enterprise.
• MudathirA male given name from Arabic.
• mudhifA traditional reed house made by the Madan people in the swamps of southern Iraq.
• mudiriyahAn administrative subdivision in parts of the Middle East.
• mufassirAn author of a tafsir.
• muhadditha scholar specialized in the study, collection, and interpretation of hadiths.
• muhafazahAn administrative division in many Arab countries; a governorate or province.
• MuhakkimaAn early faction of the Kharijites who seceded after the arbitration between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiya I, asserting the slogan “Judgment belongs only to God.”
• muhammaraA Middle Eastern dip made with walnuts, red peppers, and other ingredients.
• Muharram al-HaramSynonym of Muharram.
• muhtasibAn official appointed to supervise bazaars and trade in the medieval Islamic countries.
• mujaddaraA traditional Middle Eastern dish of lentils cooked with rice or bulgur
• mujtahidA lawyer entitled to exercise ijtihad.
• mukataaA headquarters or administrative center in Arabic countries.
• mukhannathAn effeminate man in the early Arab world; sometimes a performer of music or dance, etc.
• mulaiA title for the ruler of Morocco.
• mulukhiyahCorchorus species, particularly jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius), used as a vegetable in Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, which can be boiled into a mucilaginous broth.
• mu'minA believer in Islam.
• MuminA surname from Arabic.
• munafiqA religious hypocrite, a person who professes to believe in something (especially Islam) but actually does not.
• MunkarOne of two angels (the other being Nakir) said to test the faith of the dead in their graves.
• MuntaserA male given name from Arabic.
• muqaddamAny of various Arabic or Islamic officials.
• muqallidOne who follows taqlid.
• muqarnasA type of corbel used for decoration in Islamic and Persian architecture.
• murabahaA financing arrangement where a bank or other party buys an item and sells it on at an agreed price including profit, typically in instalments.
• murabbaA kind of sweet fruit preserve.
• muraqabahSufi meditation
• muridOf or belonging to the family Muridae.
• Murji'ahAn early Islamic school of divinity.
• murtabakA kind of stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread found in parts of the Middle East and Asia.
• murunaThe making of allowances, or deviation from certain religious norms, for the greater overall advancement of Islam.
• musahharatiA person who beats a drum to wake Muslims for suhur.
• musahhirSynonym of musahharati.
• musakhanA Palestinian dish of roast chicken baked with onions, pine nuts, and seasonings, served over tabun bread.
• musallaA place for praying (e.g. outside a mosque); a praying room.
• mushafA written copy of the Qur'an.
• musharakahA shari'a-compliant financial structure where investors in an enterprise share profits according to a mutually agreed percentage and bear losses strictly in proportion to their capital stake.
• mushboohOf food: neither obviously haram nor obviously halal, thus doubtful or suspect in terms of whether Muslims are allowed to consume it.
• mustahabbOf an action, in religious terms: recommended, favourable, virtuous.
• mutabbalA Middle Eastern dish of mashed roasted eggplant, tahini, salt, garlic, lemon and often yogurt, similar to baba ganoush but more spicy.
• mut'ahTemporary marriage (wedlease) practised by certain Muslim sects, particularly Shias.
• MutaharA male given name from Arabic.
• mutakallimA scholar of kalam.
• mutawaA member of the religious police in Saudi Arabia.
• MutawaliLebanese Twelver Shiite
• mutawalliPerson entrusted with a waqf.
• mutawatirA large chain of narrations in the hadiths
• Mu'tazilaThe followers of this branch of Islam.
• Mu'taziliOf or relating to the Mu'tazila.
• muwahhidWho is focused on tawhid, the unity of God.
• muwashshahAn Arabic ode, a multi-lined strophic verse poem, generally of five stanzas alternating with a refrain.
• MuzawwaraThe city of Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq.
• NabatiehA city in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon.
• Nabi SalehA town in the city of Ramallah, Cisjordan, Palestine.
• nabkEither of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
• nabkhaA kind of sand dune which forms around vegetation created from wind.
• NabulsiOf or pertaining to Nablus in Palestine.
• NahalinA village in the West Bank, Palestine, Israel
• nahiyahA local administrative division consisting of a number of small towns or villages in some Muslim countries, including (historical) parts of Europe under the Ottoman Empire.
• najaasahritual impurity
• najisRitually unclean, such that contact with it puts a Muslim in a state of impurity.
• namusA concept of virtue and honor within a family, typically relating to chastity of female family members.
• naqarehA Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a head made of hide, usually played in pairs.
• naqibOne of the leading missionaries of the Hashimiyya movement who prepared the Abbasid Revolution in Khurasan.
• nasabAn Arab patronymic or matronymic.
• nasibAn Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.'
• NaskhThe cursive style of calligraphy most commonly used to write Arabic.
• nasnasA monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).
• NasraniA Christian.
• NassimaA female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Nassim.
• nathr sauma votive fast
• NaufalA male given name.
• Nawabganj DistrictOne of the eight districts in the Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh.
• nefaschAny fish of the genus Distichodus.
• NehmeA surname from Arabic.
• NeomA planned city in Saudi Arabia.
• New ValleyA locality in the Armidale council area and the Inverell council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
• Night of PowerSynonym of Laylatul Qadr.