Zulm Zulm is the Arabic word used interchangeably for cruelty or unjust acts of exploitation, oppression, and wrongdoing, whereby a person either deprives others of their rights or does not fulfil his obligations towards them. In Turkish, it is known as zulüm and other cognates of this word are prevalent in several Semitic and Indo-European languages. A person who commits Zulm is called a Z