musellim Hist.
(mʊˈsɛlɪm)
Forms: α. 7 musellem, 8 mosolem, 9 musselim, musellim; β. mutsel(l)im.
[Arab. musallim, lit. paymaster, act. pple. of sallama to pay, 2nd conjug. of salama. The β forms represent mutasallim, the pple. of the 5th conjug. of the same verb.]
A Turkish officer, the lieutenant of a pasha.
| α 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. 193 A Convoy of three hundred Horse, and two hundred Foot, under the Command of the Musellem. 1703 Maundrell Journ. Jerus. 29 Mar. (1721) 78 The Mosolem or Governour of the City. 1813 Byron Br. Abydos i. xii, More ill-got wealth, a meaner soul Holds not a Musselim's control. 1847 Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 348 The power which..had been conceded to his Musellims. |
| β 1844 Kitto Phys. Hist. Palestine vi. 161 Its fisheries were..rented of the Mutsellim of Szaffad by some fishermen of that town. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl. Mutselim. |