احمد

See also: أحمد, اجمد, and أجمد

Arabic

Verb

اِحْمَدْ • (iḥmad) (form I) /iħ.mad/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of حَمِدَ (ḥamida)

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔah.ˈmað]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɦ.mǽd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɦ.mǽd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.mǽd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.mǽd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɦ.mǽd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɦ.mǽd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ahmaḏ
Dari reading?	ahmad
Iranian reading?	ahmad
Tajik reading?	ahmad

Proper noun

Dari	احمد
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Аҳмад

احمد • (ahmad)

1. (Islam) Another name of the Prophet Muhammad.
2. a male given name, Ahmad, from Arabic

Adjective

احمد • (ahmad)

1. (obsolete) most praiseworthy
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 79:

     یوسف جمال احمد عیسی نفس که هست
     حور بهشت قدرت پروردگار هم

     yūsuf jamāl-i ahmad-i īsā nafas ki hast
     hūr-i bihišt-i qudrat-i parwardagār ham

     The most praiseworthy one of Joseph's beauty and Jesus's [resurrecting] breath, who is
     Also the paradisaical houri of the might of the Lord.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “احمد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَحْمَد (ahmad), from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əɦ.məd̪/ [ɛɦ.məd]
• Rhymes: -əd̪

Proper noun

اَحْمَد • (aḥmad) m (Hindi spelling अहमद)

1. a male given name, Ahmed or Ahmad, from Arabic
2. a male surname, Ahmed or Ahmad, from Arabic