[Arab. bi-’sm-illah(i ‘in the name of God.’] In the name of Allah or God; a common Mohammedan exclamation.
1813. Byron, Giaour, 568. They reach the grove of pine at last: Bismillah! now the peril’s past.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, liii. He … is all for the sack practice, Bismillah!
