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Definition of madrasa noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

madrasa

noun

/məˈdræsə/

/məˈdræsə/

(also madrasah)

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a college where the Islamic faith is taughtTopics Religion and festivalsc2, Buildingsc2
Word OriginArabic, from darasa ‘to study’.

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