madrasa
/məˈdɹæsə/noun
madrasa is a noun meaning “A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-D-R-A-S-A, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of madrasa is madrasas or madaris.
What does madrasa mean?
noun
- 1
A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce madrasa?
- /məˈdɹæsə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-madrasa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of madrasa
- madrasas plural
- madaris plural
- madrasah
- madrassa
- medrese
- medresa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is madrasa?
Madrasa appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Madrasa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense school for Islamic theology:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does madrasa come from?
Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).