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murshid

noun

murshid is spelled M-U-R-S-H-I-D: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, murshid means “An Islamic teacher, especially in Sufism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of murshid is murshids.

How many letters and syllables are in murshid?

Letters7: M-U-R-S-H-I-D
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is murshid?

Murshid appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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).

Forms of murshid

  • murshids plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does murshid mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An Islamic teacher, especially in Sufism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does murshid come from?

From Arabic مُرْشِد (muršid, “guide, teacher”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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