different between school vs madrasah

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko?ol, IPA^(key): /sku?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).

Alternative forms

• skull (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

2. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

   The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

3. A multitude.

Synonyms

• (fish): shoal

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Etymology 2

From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school₁. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).

Alternative forms

• schole (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

1. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

2. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

4. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

5. An art movement, a community of artists.

   The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.

7. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

   He was a gentleman of the old school.

   • 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman

     His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

10. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Synonyms

• (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
• (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:school

Coordinate terms

• (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

1. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
   • 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,

     A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.

   • 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,

     "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."

     "This time I'm gonna school you."

3. (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Derived terms

• schooling

Translations

Further reading

• school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cholos

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sxo?l/
• Hyphenation: school
• Rhymes: -o?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
2. A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
3. Any organisation providing instruction.
4. A movement or stylistic trend.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: skool
  • ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? N?uu: skool
  • ? Sotho: sekolo
  • ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
  • ? Tsonga: xikolo
  • ? Venda: tshikolo
  • ? Xhosa: isikolo
  • ? Zulu: isikole
• ? Papiamentu: skol
• ? Sranan Tongo: skoro

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.

Derived terms

• samenscholen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

school

1. singular past indicative of schuilen
2. first-person singular present indicative of scholen
3. imperative of scholen

English

Alternative forms

• madrasa, madrassa, medrese, medresa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????????? f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb ??????? (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d?æs?/

Noun

madrasah (plural madrasahs or madaris)

1. (Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.

Translations

Anagrams

• adharmas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay madrasah, from Arabic ?????????? (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mad?rasah/
• Hyphenation: mad?ra?sah

Noun

madrasah (first-person possessive madrasahku, second-person possessive madrasahmu, third-person possessive madrasahnya)

1. (Islam, education) school.

Usage notes

In Indonesia, sekolah is used by school which is under supervision of Ministry of Education. Islamic school supervised by Ministry of Religious Affairs use madrasah.

Synonyms

• sekolah

Derived terms

Further reading

• “madrasah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ?????????? (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mad?rasah/
• Hyphenation: mad?ra?sah

Noun

madrasah (Jawi spelling ??????, plural madrasah-madrasah, informal 1st possessive madrasahku, impolite 2nd possessive madrasahmu, 3rd possessive madrasahnya)

1. (Islam, education) school.
2. (Islam) a small mosque.

   Synonyms: surau, langgar

Usage notes

In Indonesia, sekolah is a school under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Islamic schools supervised by the Ministry of Religious Affairs are called madrasah.

Synonyms

• (school): sekolah

Further reading

• “madrasah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.