mislem

Etymology
From (muslim, in dialects widely mislim). The word was inherited from Arabic as referring to a group of people with whom the Maltese remained in contact, while is a learned borrowing from Italian. Similarly, in other European languages, words for “Muslim” (like ) are generally much older than the words for the religion. For the phonotactics of the plural, compare.

Noun

 * 1) Muslim follower of Islam